On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:41 AM, André Malo <n...@perlig.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 June 2013 21:18:05 Stefan Fritsch wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 June 2013, André Malo wrote: >> > > trunk patch: http://svn.apache.org/r1491155 >> > > 2.4.x patch: trunk patch works >> > > nd: why would you do that in a stable branch? >> > > >> > > + sf: Because it is only annoying and serves no purpose >> > > anymore. If you + want, we can make it a minor MMN bump >> > > for adding a "new" API. +1: sf, covener >> > > >> > > -1: nd >> > >> > Long discussions in STATUS are kinda tedious ;-) >> > >> > Well, I think, such changes are what trunk is for. Why not simply >> > leave everything below as-is? Even more if it removes only an >> > annoyance? Or is there a real technical reason I'm just not seeing >> > right now? > > [...] >> >> Or, is there a real technical reason to keep it broken in 2.4? > > Annoying rhetoric games aside - we went from "only annoying" to "broken". What > is it now? > > No other opinion on this?
I think Stefan did it justice in the STATUS remark. I don't really understand the objection. Are you afraid a strtoul will sneak into one of our modules, or that a module developer needs this macro to protect them from it? -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com
