From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 1 23: 9: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B70014CB6 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:08:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA13034 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:08:50 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA78079 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:08:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0839F14CB6 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.schuster@germany.sun.com) Received: from emuc05-home.Germany.Sun.COM ([129.157.51.10]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA07672; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:08:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from germany.sun.com (hacker [129.157.167.97]) by emuc05-home.Germany.Sun.COM (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id IAA10047; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:08:26 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <381E8DEC.743798DC@germany.sun.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 08:08:28 +0100 From: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU crap, in general (was stpcpy()) References: <199911011953.MAA29725@usr02.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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