On Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 06:48:22 PST Noah Birnel wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:43:22AM +0000, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>> In my observation one should stick to one platform, which is nowadays
>> Linux+common libraries (most of the time) when packaging some source
>> code. In >90% of all cases it will work fine, because the other 95% of
>> users use Linux as well and the 5% remainder either uses some BSD
>> where the likelihood is high that it'll just compile as well and some
>> <<1% users will use some exotic platform where we shouldn't bother at
>> all if it'll work or not.
>
>Those are amazing percentages.
Yes, and unless I'm mistaken, they're purely anecdotal. ;-)
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