Re: [pdf-devel] Portability and supported host types

[Hubert Figuiere]

> * Mac OS X
> 
> It is a BSD system emulated in top of mach, is POSIX compliance
> enough?

Should be enough. Most of the portability issues comme from the
dependencies that might need to be installed to build. 
If you need a "graphic layer" for display, I'd say to just use Cairo.

> * Mac OS
> 
> Old. It is useful to support this host type?

It is a waste of time to even try that. Even the compatibility layer in
MacOS X is no longer available on Intel based machines.


> The PDF reference includes dispositions for several specific host
> types: Unix, Windows and MacOS. Note that even if our library is not
> able to run on Mac OS we still should be prepared to manage PDF files
> made in Mac OS.

Off course, this case should be dealt with.


Hub