From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T02:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] slave-1.1.0

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Tim Pease wrote:
>> Does Slave work on the Win32 platform, or is this a UNIX only gem?
> 
> what is this "windows" you speak of?

I think it might be what these GNU folks are talking about
in their coding standards document,

  If you do support Windows, please do not abbreviate it as �win�.
  In hacker terminology, calling something a �win� is a form of
  praise.  You're free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own
  if you want, but please don't do this in GNU packages. Instead
  of abbreviating �Windows� to �un�, you can write it in full or
  abbreviate it to �woe� or �w�. In GNU Emacs, for instance, we
  use �w32� in file names of Windows-specific files, but the macro
  for Windows conditionals is called WINDOWSNT.

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#System-Portability

Later,
--
Bil Kleb
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