On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:41:48PM +0000, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote: > Hello Linus, > > > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote: > > > > > > > > Because it's GNU and that it's a heavy dependency to begin with. > > > > > > So it's more of a political decision then a technical one? > > > > I'd *strongly* argue against new dependencies unless they buy us > > something major. > > > > We've been good at cutting them down, including any required > > libraries internally. We shouldn't add new ones. > > > > So we'd have to include GNU getopt sources with the git tree, at > > which point any advantage would be gone. Might as well include a > > private and simpler version of our own. > > > From what I understand argp is part of glibc. And of course requiring the glibc would be a big step forward for the msys (or AIX, or HP-UX, or …) port ! -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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