From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1858 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Musl-extra: C general-purpose and utility library Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:49:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20120907134906.GP27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20120907130412.25ecfd90@gmail.com> <20120907133147.GN27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <5049F8C9.9070801@purdue.edu> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347025598 6680 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2012 13:46:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:46:38 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1859-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Sep 07 15:46:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9ytL-0003mA-W8 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:46:40 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 22246 invoked by uid 550); 7 Sep 2012 13:46:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 22234 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2012 13:46:36 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5049F8C9.9070801@purdue.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1858 Archived-At: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:38:17AM -0400, Gregor Richards wrote: > I'm inclined to point out that there's another side to this coin: > Although we all like to fault gnulib for having a bunch of > unportable and unwise garbage, the vast majority of gnulib is > portable implementations of functions that the libcs frequently get > wrong. As usual, GNU is the worst user of gnulib, so we get a > contorted view. > > Much of musl could be extracted for similar purpose, but under a > less painful license and with less bloat from supporting systems so > ancient they're irrelevant and won't work anyway. This is a very interesting idea. Very different from what philomath proposed, of course. Rich