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To: "Patrick Edson" <pedson@xxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Porting
From: Sverker Wiberg <sverkerw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:59:24 +0100

Patrick Edson wrote:
> The type of changes range from the simple like adding some
> #ifdef __BEOS__ etc... 

Don't spell out the differences (as with #ifdef __BEOS__). Let the
build process probe for them instead. Use automake/autoconf to probe
for your BeOS-specific (and other) features.

That way the maintainers won't have to remember each and every
idiosyncracy of each and every platform. As a bonus, the code will
compile and run on almost any Unix-like OS, even those we haven't
heard about.

Good luck!

/Sverker


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