On Fri, 18.01.13 20:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: > If your functions get added to GlibC, then they will only be available > in GNU systems (unless other vendors decide to clone them) and programs > that use them will be tied to GNU or will need workarounds in their > configuration scripts in order to be portable. If you make them a > separate, portable library, then they can be installed on all Unix-like > systems, and maybe other operating systems too, and programs that use > them will also be portable. Wouldn't that be better? Yes, let's make our platform as bad as possible, so that people really have a hard time writing software for it. If they then do write software for it anyway they will have to do everything on their own, pull in a gazillion of dependencies for that, and can do that in a thousand different combinations, because that makes the code better, gets people to test codepaths better, and just makes their lifes a lot more fun. For example, I really find it appalling that Linux had proper threads support (and even in the libc!) so early, at a time where OpenBSD didn't. I think Linux really hurt the open source ecosystem with that, as people could write threaded up for Linux that then wouldn't work on OpenBSD. Booh, Linux, bad, Linux! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
