[Bug-zile] OT: gnulib vs libposix [Was Re: Incremental search is dog slow in moderately-sized files]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Jan 19, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 19 January 2014 08:54, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Jan 19, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> I still strongly advocate libposix as a shim between applications that 
>> >> stick to posix apis and libc - avoiding adding thousands of lines of 
>> >> configury and gnulib sources to every project.
>> >
>> > Eh? It's supposed to be a library! You don't add it to every project!
>> 
>> Run on sentence, sorry.  I meant to say that a libposix shim shared by 
>> everything is preferable to adding gnulib configury and fallback function 
>> implementations to every project.
>> 
> Exactly, so by the same logic you might as well build all of "libgnu", not 
> just the POSIX APIs. The libc maintainers would be bound to agree!

Ah, I see what you mean.  Well that would be preferable to the big fat nothing 
we have right now.  I'll have to try it out, and see how well it works -- 
there's a couple of gotchas in the split between library and application 
modules, and also LGPL vs GPL licensing incompatibilities.  On the TODO list :)

In a perfect world, teaching people to stick to the POSIX apis if humanly 
possibly would be better for general portability of GNU software though.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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