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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by Cliff Woolley <jw...@virginia.edu> on 2003/06/05 23:36:35 UTC

Re: cvs commit: apr-site index.html

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 jerenkrantz@apache.org wrote:

>   -  <p>
>   -      The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide
>   -      a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a
>   -      system portability layer to as many operating systems as
>   -      possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.
>   +
>   +  <p>The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and
>   +     maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent
>   +     interface to underlying platform-specific implementations.  The primary
>   +     goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be
>   +     assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the
>   +     platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to
>   +     code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of
>   +     platform-specific deficiencies or features.


Thanks, Justin!

--Cliff