From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 4 09:52:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09986 for current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09977 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA03300; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:52:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20540; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:31:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970604183147.OA09251@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:31:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: james@nexis.net (James FitzGibbon) Subject: Re: Use of your strptime(3) code (fwd) References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from James FitzGibbon on Jun 4, 1997 06:58:47 -0400 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As James FitzGibbon wrote: > This company (Powerdog Industries) have a strptime implementation that > looks like we could use. It's already been added to NetBSD (sometime > after v1.2 as far as I can tell) I thought about adding it to the regular libc, but as i've been partways through, i noticed the overly restrictive copyright again (no modifications allowed whatsoever). It is plain unacceptable with this copyright, and unless Powerdog can make this less restrictive, i consider rewriting it from scratch (sigh). The need for modification arises out of two things: . adding localization (it basically can share the same localization hooks strftime is using), . fixing bugs like the incompatible use of %C, which means something totally different in BSD, . adding missing specifications. Good that you've got an email address for them, the source doesn't have one. If they agree to delete the `without modifications' clause from the copyright, i can probably make what i've got so far commit-ready within one hour or so. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)