Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: non-pkgsrc emacs or clone

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > (In more recent version branches of NetBSD and other OS's, system .h files
> > > have become progrssively more strict about standards conformance.
>
> > There must be something nice I could find to say about NetBSD's header,
> > but offhand, all I can recall are their problems (incomplete,
>
> Hm, can you say "standards conformance" again?

sure can.  utmpx/utmp, wide-character, crud in the header files marked
to-be-done.  But I'm wasting my time - if you knew what I was talking 
about, you'd be a little more graceful about it.

> Please keep your (likely Linux-advocacy based) flamebait at home.  The rest

rofl - awai

no (and I'm not a Nazi either - to save you the inevitable knee-jerk 
reaction).

> of us are working with third party software quite successfully on NetBSD,
> and it's unfortunate that you feel the need to have an unfounded temper
> tantrum about it.

Perhaps I'm just tired of explaining to people why NetBSD's header files
are a nuisance to work around.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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