Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:08:00 -0800 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3) Message-ID: <20040114060800.GA16666@VARK.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200401140300.i0E30ZBo084008@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200401140300.i0E30ZBo084008@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004, mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > Some open-source applications would like to use these functions and > are forced to provide their own (mostly GPL-ed) implementations. Can you be more specific? What open-source applications require them? My reluctance to add these functions stems from the apparent paucity of such applications. Nobody has complained about their absence in the last decade, so if we're going to put them in libc forever even after POSIX has officially deprecated them, we need to make sure that decision is well-justified.
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