On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:59:49PM -0500, Perry E.Metzger wrote: > > If you mean that the NetBSD folks are going to abandon their libc, > which is really nice to work with, I think you're mistaken. It is > unlikely that they're ever going to do that. ("They" includes me, > fyi.)
I'm not impressed. > If you had a list of functional deficiencies in the native libc, > though, it would probably be possible to re-implement them and fix > them in the native NetBSD libc. NetBSD would like to be maximally > compatible with third party apps, so we add stuff we need all the time > and are happy to do it. It would also likely be far less work to add a > few dozen new functions to libc than for you to re-implement the > userland SA framework and debug it. Porting to a Glibc-based from another is kids play. In a few months I started two ports and brought them to a stage that took years for a group of people to attain. And I have seen your "less work" patches already. Xfree86 and pam are good examples. Have a look at them. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)