Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:12:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, d@delphij.net, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale utf8.c Message-ID: <20071026171216.GA95930@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <472217C2.8020800@samsco.org> References: <200710150951.l9F9pUm7026506@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071025233536.B99770@fledge.watson.org> <472120E8.90504@samsco.org> <200710261144.34645.jhb@freebsd.org> <472217C2.8020800@samsco.org>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:37:22AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > and I are saying about having a justification for changes. .. > The ctype ABI change > isn't like that at all; it's mandatory and it can't be > worked around. We also asked that even justifiable changes be evaluated > to see if there was any work-around to avoid breakage. Several have > already been suggested for the ctype change. Certainly implementing something in an alternate way that doesn't cause an forward incompatibility in RELENG_* is a Good Thing and should be strived for. It is nice that in this case it looks like we have this choice of implementations. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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