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Subject: Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor)
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In message <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>, Baptiste Daroussin w
rites:

>I have been working in importing tradcpp (developped by David A. Holland from
>NetBSD) into the ports tree, it is a traditional (K&R-style) C macro
>preprocessor BSD licensed. I first worked on it so that imake can work properly
>without gcc.

As a user of certain antique X11 apps, I applaud this effort.

>I discovered that some part of the base system still needs a traditional
>preprocessor, like (calendar), what I propose it to import tradcpp into the base
>system (not the version in port right now but what will become version 0.2).

However, I think these programs should be fixed, rather than put tradcpp
in the src tree.


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