Making Async play better with others

[Markus Mottl]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 19:44, Yaron Minsky <yminsky at janestreet.com> wrote:
> Yury is hoping to get a proper bridging system for ferrying patches
> back and forth to github done very soon, say, in another week.  If we
> can't get it done, we'll try something simpler as an intermediate
> step.

Sounds good, my kids will keep me busy enough in the meanwhile.

> In any case, we'd be very happy to accept portability patches!
> Stephen, what do you think about Markus' proposal for how to organize
> it?  It's worth noting that this patch might conflict with a patch
> that Stephen has done internally that reorganizes much of Async's
> internals to separate out a small core that is independent of all
> OS-specific code.

I'd surely prefer using that version.  In case it would take too long
to wait for the integration, I could apply the trivial changes.  I
managed to build async on Mac OS X using the preprocessor with them.
Merging a few lines later doesn't sound like too much of a challenge.

Regards,
Markus

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