RE: When a "shim" is not a "shim"

[MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Holger Gremminger [mailto:hgremminger -at- gmx -dot- de] came up with:

> > So far, they've been referring to it by its obscure, alphabet-soup 
> > filename, but that's not the preferred solution.
> > 
> > Thoughts?  Suggestions?
> 
> Maybe "Build xyz"? Or "Add-on" ...
> "Extension"?

Nice tries.  "Build xyz" is already implied by the main library, 
and this doesn't replace the main library. It's added with it, 
to... um... shim it up, for just the two (so far) OS variants 
that need it.

"Add-on" and "Extension", aside from a connotation that now 
has an unfortunate air about it, due to the "Thingy" sub-thread
also suggest (like "plug-in") that you'd be getting extra 
functionality. You don't. You'd just be getting what the other 
folk get, that use the real-people OS's.  After all, who really 
uses AIX?     


(Stop! I'm just kidding about AIX.   Now, HP-UX on the other hand...)

/kevin

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