Re: Increasing Polipo Portability for GSoC 2009

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:16:07PM -0700, Kyle Williams wrote:
> > I'll be working to increase Polipo's portability for GSoC 2009,
> 
> I thought Polipo was already portable.  I've been using it with D.A.D. on a
> USB drive for over a year, and haven't had any problems.

In software development lingo, portability has to do with whether a
program compiles and runs on a variety of architectures and operating
systems.

It's a different term than the collection of "portable foo" programs
that aim to be run without needing system libraries/etc.

--Roger