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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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