Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 08:27:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xstr, mkstr Message-ID: <CANCZdfpjpO8yb7_dty_fSe548BYwU5GRQgGimcFd8VKFLkyYHQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201807041425.w64EP2sg043237@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <95857.1530687122@critter.freebsd.dk> <201807041425.w64EP2sg043237@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > But, as I said early, lets just shelf all this "lets remove this or > that cause of foo" until package base is done, and then a group of > people should create a documented critiria list of what should or > should not be in the base system, and do a tree wide sweep rather > than have 100+ threads over the next 5 years about this or that. > It does tie into the deprecation stuff too. xstr, at least, needs major work to support modern C dialects. It's not just old, it's also broken. A quick stroll through the code shows this. It should go because it's not worth taking with us to pkg base. Warner
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