Re: fmtcheck.c
Re: fmtcheck.c
- Subject: Re: fmtcheck.c
- From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:47:22 -0700
On Jul 2, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:
On Jul 2, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On Jul 2, 2005, at 2:07 AM, Peter Seebach wrote: It's probably more actively maintained; the ideal thing might be to get it debugged there, then import it "to track improvements in NetBSD", because it'll be politically easier. :)
Well, we could take it straight into Apple's Libc without a "political fight" - that would be comparatively trivial, and I already forwarded it to the Libc maintainer with a question to that effect. That said, getting it into NetBSD and/or FreeBSD is STILL a worthwhile goal and one which reduces our divergence from our reference code base(s). We already have a large amount of stuff to fold back into FreeBSD's libc as it is, and figuring out how to do that in a non-destructive fashion has recently been occupying a fair amount of the libc maintainer's time. It would be a definite win to not make that problem any worse.
Is there really a political aspect to this? (I'm afraid that I am a little naïve in this regard.)
No, in fact, there isn't - I was just responding to Peter's comment about how it would be "politically easier" to have it go into NetBSD first. In point of fact, we'll take Libc improvements from anywhere (or feel free to add our own), the only thing we need to be careful of is how we diverge from the FreeBSD reference libc. Should the FreeBSD project subsequently add some kind of pervasive chewy, crunchy new goodness to its libc and we've diverged significantly in the meantime, it will be that much harder for us to sync up with that. |
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