Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 08:08:28 +0100 From: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany <michael.schuster@germany.sun.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU crap, in general (was stpcpy()) Message-ID: <381E8DEC.743798DC@germany.sun.com> References: <199911011953.MAA29725@usr02.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think it is a mistake to bring stuff that is not defined by > standards into the nominally standards compliant parts of the > source tree. > ... > For stpcpy, if required by some package off the net, I believe > the canonically correct thing to do is to provide an implementation > as part of the source code for the software, giving the necessary > changes back to the author, so that platforms which don't have > the function can _all_ use the software, instead of limiting the > software to FreeBSD and Linux, by adding stpcpy to a FreeBSD library. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org I couldn't agree more. regards Michael -- Michael Schuster / Michael.Schuster@germany.sun.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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