Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:23:54 -0500 From: slave-mike <slave-mike@slavepix.com> To: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3) Message-ID: <4009D21A.6060405@slavepix.com> In-Reply-To: <20040114060800.GA16666@VARK.homeunix.com> References: <200401140300.i0E30ZBo084008@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040114060800.GA16666@VARK.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-standards@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-standards > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-standards-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Why do they have to in libc? Shouldn't we be able to make a port or such that can be installed to handle these special case situtations? /usr/ports/devel/lib-deprecated
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