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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Maybe R5 wishes, or a "better" way to construct X, or something
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Date: 18 Sep 90 06:42:54 GMT
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In article <7939@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
|> I would like to see two things:
|> 
|> -- Use of "lightweight processes" for some level of the widgetry.  The
|>    correct level is unclear to me at the moment.


	N o ,   d o n ' t   d o   i t !

The lightweight process library is not only UNIX-specific, it is even
SunOS-specific. Please consider those who do not program on a UNIX machine!
Take me as an example: I am developing X software for BS2000 where you
don't even have something like fork().

In general: Please write your applications as portable as possible! Put
OS-specific things in separate modules. Design and document the interface
clearly so that the system specific module can easyly be reprogrammed on
another OS!

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