Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom

[root]

> > I disagree with the idea that writing to /dev/null should be banned.
> 
> But isn't /dev/null quite Unix-specific? It basically means that in 
> order to build Axiom one must have a Unix-like environment. Not that I 
> want to make the build process more complicated, but I am just curious 
> how difficult it would be to build Axiom without mingw or cygwin.

The use of ${TMP}/null rather than /dev/null is intentional.
Axiom does not write outside of it's directory subtree for any reason.
Following this philosophy it cannot write to /dev/null, which may not
even exist on certain platforms such as windows. 

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