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Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:22:54 -0800 |
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"Paul Edwards" <address@hidden> writes:
>> "it is
>> better to spend your time adding features that will be useful on GNU
>> and GNU/Linux, rather than on supporting other incompatible systems."
>
> In this case the work has already been done.
No it hasn't. The patch would break diff3 on POSIX systems, would
make the code harder to read with extra #ifs, and isn't autoconfized.
A lot more work would have to be done before the patch would be
acceptable.
At this point we should probably just give it a rest. Perhaps once
you've ported more stuff to MVS you can build up a porting library
that you can reuse, one that entails minimal changes to the upstream
sources.
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, (continued)
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Edwards, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Jarc, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Edwards, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Jarc, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Edwards, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Eggert, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Edwards, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, John Cowan, 2006/11/14
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Dan Hipschman, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Paul Edwards, 2006/11/15
- Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch, Andreas Schwab, 2006/11/14