Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:41:55 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h Message-ID: <p05111751b8ff4a6666fc@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3CD97D9D.E4E734D5@mindspring.com> References: <B8FED3FA.CC8C%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> <3CD97D9D.E4E734D5@mindspring.com>
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At 12:33 PM -0700 5/8/02, Terry Lambert wrote: >Ian wrote: > > Within the context of a given project (E.G., FreeBSD) > > someone's opinion on this matter may achieve the force > > of "a rule". Within the larger context of software > > engineering in general there is no rule, not even a > > concensus, on this issue. > >My opinion is *far far away* from the force of "a rule" >within the FreeBSD project. I think I can get a loud "amen" from the audience on that... :-) >However, I think that there is a general consensus >against promiscuous includes. In fact, FreeBSD recently did a pretty tedious and extensive cleanup of the system include libraries on freebsd-current, precisely to come closer to what the standards dictate for those libraries. And the standards do not like promiscuous include libraries (or whatever you might want to call it...). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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