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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