Dne 26.7.2018 v 18:03 Jason L Tibbitts III napsal(a): >>>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > FW> I would like to request a change of the Packaging Guidelines, > FW> advising packagers not to interpose malloc. > > How strong of a restriction are you looking for? This sort of feels > like something which would at the strongest be a "SHOULD NOT" but maybe > you're looking for an absolute ban. > > Some maintainers may find it difficult to comply with an absolute ban if > the relevant software doesn't make it easy to change the allocator. And > some upstreams may have strong preferences for one allocator over > another (which I imagine would often be linked to performance). Will > assistance be offered to modify affected packages? What about > contacting upstreams? > > How many packages would need to change to meet this guideline? Just FTR, there is ongoing discussion about changing default to jemalloc in Ruby: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14718 Wouldn't it be better if glibc maintainers joined such discussions to improve glibc malloc implementation? V. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/VC4ZDKJWI6JQJCL75KTYTLX6H24SHIKR/
