From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 11 22:35:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0626BD; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:35:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from anubis.delphij.net (anubis.delphij.net [64.62.153.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198211179; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zeta.ixsystems.com (drawbridge.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by anubis.delphij.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB8411B83E; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:35:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=delphij.net; s=anubis; t=1370990155; bh=7v0TtEsCrDU8qbRRjrt7p0kHk3i7MkOlUBbtHeYp7ZM=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=SZIGwlTWUOngj0WgUal4aj3aPZzYQUqps6ide1EdocGAiWw2MtjjS+8u4I8Wslhk2 GCzjE7owaWE8Rh4lw+ekzWcdpRMNCtfZDwsFz8G1DrEful+uAiOVKn0RNkWw8y0dPA HnXsPDuRddguFbKjQdCIw1gSBNyV78t6IGwU3TNI= Message-ID: <51B7A64A.5070108@delphij.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:35:54 -0700 From: Xin Li Organization: The FreeBSD Project MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base? References: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20130611221124.GC84600@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:35:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/11/13 15:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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). > > It mostly behave like gcpp, and I'm able to properly use calendar > along with tradcpp with this small patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/tradcpp.diff > > Any objections against me importing it? Looking at the manual page, it looks like that the only reason is to support #include's? I think it would be better to just fix it than importing a new (old) preprocessor... Cheers, - -- Xin LI https://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJRt6ZKAAoJEG80Jeu8UPuzrX4IAJj1hg/+Vh8oGuc2vVeuAU0W 6brYFkZFlgIicyC2k6BFuVU6jTyn3KelFyMxVgzk2S/5fI6lHh6YCHB/XRCDEzHg GG1TELsFKOgAUsA1xp/uDIKTJKqR2Wef2J3oaCl2L5FL0z/cySopPMLOcd08MiCA wOgr3qcPAfaxROOQJaZTs6lbUOs1zKB7RrtuCaYUB5fEwJ4uZwyKmkZtqEAK7WGT 8gDA78nfKxOLHE4XOBE1McO3sFrCQQoj+uAKS0tbRt4+qAD8rRq4T8H5BEk+eNqF NSPjFRKFrTXKSTnK4U+MBOcw7DhlOcabAz9Lpl6nD5hOzz2mUk4YG3pH/jY9zhg= =dsBw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----