Melikamp The Medley wrote: > You seem to be implying that I am suggesting that my yet to be written > code is to be added to coreutils. I don't believe I gave out that > impression.
I am sorry if I misunderstood but you said this: > > I think I want to write a utility that prints pseudo-random integers > > (I have in CL, but I like it fast, so this time in C), and link it > > with coreutils. Saying that gave me that impression. Since coreutils is not a library and one cannot in any way link with it in the sense of a C program linking to a library then you can only be implying that you want to submit a program with the coreutils package. People are often writing to the mailing list asking to include their code in coreutils. I believe that is the same impression that everyone else had too. > > I want to print uniformly distributed integers fast, formatted, in > > bulk if needed. And I want to call it roll. Let me know if you have a > > word of advice. This continues the impression. Here you definitely say that you want a program and not a C library. > Of course, I would be delighted if any of my code was ever useful to > anyone, and escpecially GNU, but so far I simply announced an > intention to link with coreutils, because it already contains a very > fast implementation of a desired algorithm. The only place I am > pushing this into is my own git tree. The coreutils is not a library and it is not a link target. You may be thinking of gnulib which is a library and is meant to be a link target. Coreutils uses gnulib. Bob
