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Portability issues
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16 Sep 1999
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Much of the XMLterm code is cross-platform. Implementation features that
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affect portability at the moment are:
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1. Main event handling:
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By default, the present implementation of XMLterm directly uses a GTK
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call to set up a handler for XMLterm output events. This can be disabled
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by setting NO_CALLBACK=1 in the make command line, and calling the
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method mozIXMLTermShell::Poll() frequently to poll for readable output
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from LineTerm.
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(A better event/callback mechanism needs to be implemented.)
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2. pseudo-TTY (PTY) operations:
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The PTY interface for XMLterm is currently implemented only for
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two platforms, Linux and Solaris. At some point, the PTY interface
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should be ported to most Unix platforms. On platforms where PTY
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operations are not implemented, the cross-platform NSPR process mechanism
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is used to create a "slave" process. However, this process uses NSPR
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pipes for communication, which prevents the use of terminal control
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characters such as the most usefule Control-C. (Is there a way around
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this restriction?)
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What about Windows? It should be possible to use XMLterm even under Windows,
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using the NSPR process/pipe functions for communication and
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using the Cygwin utilities to simulate the Unix environment.
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3. The lightweight GeckoTerm uses GTK.
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4. The "unistring" module uses wchar functions which do not always have
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the same names.
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