From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1593 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Todo for release? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:57:26 +0200 Message-ID: <502B9CB6.6000802@gentoo.org> References: <20120813185329.GA20024@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120815040836.GJ27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1345035466 3155 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 12:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:57:46 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1594-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Aug 15 14:57:47 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 1T1dAQ-00039e-6p for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:57:46 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9340 invoked by uid 550); 15 Aug 2012 12:57:44 -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 9327 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2012 12:57:42 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120808 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <20120815040836.GJ27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1593 Archived-At: On 8/15/12 6:08 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > On hold pending details on what the real problem is; unlikely to make > it in for next release. > > Luca, if you still want this, please provide details on what issues > you're facing that could be solved. I don't want to target old > versions of standards unless there's a concrete practical goal. I > mentioned one possible approach (using old versions only as a way to > reenable stuff that was removed from the standard, not a way to get > the entire outdated-standard behavior that would also require removing > new symbols) but I haven't heard back on whether that would meet your > needs. Your approach would be fine even making something wrong like exposing all the symbols would be ok for my specific purposes. Alternatively forcing one of the two SOURCES would work as well. lu