[Gllug] What's so good about Debian?

[Rich Walker]

Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> writes:


> Virtually all of the scripts I write are designed for specific
> administration tasks.  Making them portable isn't a priority and
> portability issues are better resolved at install time than run time,
> especially with complex scripts.

There's portability and there's timewasting.

If you code for debian/testing or NetBSD, then your code will run on
between 9 and 13 different CPU architectures, which implies pretty much
everything with a <16-bit CPU.

As far as I know, this means that, if you want portability, there are no
other systems worth coding for.

Mind you, I understand that some people install other OS's and
platforms - which is the reason for Free Software - they can do the
porting.

The best way to achieve real portability is to code to the standard, and
document the code.

cheers, Rich

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