From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 8 14:42: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821F437B403 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 14:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g48LfunG087172; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:41:56 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3CD97D9D.E4E734D5@mindspring.com> References: <3CD97D9D.E4E734D5@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:41:55 -0400 To: Terry Lambert , Ian From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h Cc: freebsd-hackers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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