alt Hacker NewsYou can be portable, without supporting obscure platforms.
Supporting obscure platforms is what makes portability "extreme", though.
You can be portable, without supporting obscure platforms.
Supporting obscure platforms is what makes portability "extreme", though.
“Portable”, in the context of how it was used, generally refers to software using platform agnostic idioms.
If you have to write extensive patches to actually port the software, then it’s only “portable” in the same sense that any software can be ported with enough effort. Ie “Foo is portable. You just have to write a write a whole new kernel to port it”