Re: [jamboost] Re: Removing dots from toolset names

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-07 21:07:10

Beman Dawes wrote:

> The classic MAC OS is less of a consideration today, and VMS also falls in 
> that category. The legacy IBM systems are still important in some quarters, 
> but we have never had any requests for Boost interoperability on those 
> systems that I'm aware of.

We've had requests for operability in OpenVMS. And having multiple dots, 
i.e. extensions in that OS, was one of the problems reported for getting 
things working easily. It wasn't impossible if I remember correctly, 
just harder as it required manual intervention.

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