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Re: Portability?
by Corbin on Wednesday 04/Jan/2006, @10:34

What they mean (I think) is that the platforms will provide something like HAL on linux and then a backend for Solid will be developed for that platform using the available technologies, I don't think they are saying that on Windows or OS X that they would rely on microsoft and apple to do it, they are going to rely on the developers on that platform primarily (though probably many Solid developers will work on many platforms).

I think "Solid is specifying the features the underlying system must provide" means stuff like the OS must have some way for apps to be notified of hardware or network changes, preferably through means other than the app being forced to periodically poll the status.

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Re: Portability?
by superstoned on Wednesday 04/Jan/2006, @10:49

indeed. there is already a HAL backend, and i don't think its written by HAL developers...

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