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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:16:00 +0000
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On 13/03/2025 02:35, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:33:27 +0000, bart wrote:
> 
>> On 13/03/2025 00:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:12:34 +0000, bart wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also feel it is wrong to paint Windows as a poor machine for
>>>> development, simply because it is not a Unix clone.
>>>
>>> The fact that Windows developers themselves are unable to improve the
>>> situation is all the justification we need.
>>
>> Improve what situation?
> 
> The one you’ve been complaining about.
> 
>> Unix based developers insist of using some nonsense called XYZZY for
>> all their projects, which only works on Unix, and Windows is at
>> fault for not immediately implementing XYZZY too?
> 
> It’s their fault for wanting to run the Unix software, instead of
> developing their own.

Ha! It's just 'software' when it's cross-platform.

Cross-platform means somebody ensures it will run across different OSes. 
But it would be odd to go to that trouble and not have a cross-platform 
build process too. Unless they will consent to providing binaries for 
which they will use a cross-compilation process.

What I also find amusing is that this is a group about the C language 
which is touted to run every conceivable target on the planet, past, 
present and future.

The reason for half the UBs is because some operation is badly defined 
on whacko architecture which accounts for 0.00001% of machines.

So it takes portability seriously.

Yet when it comes to *building* software, which is just another kind of 
application, then apparently only Unix-like exists.