On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:02:23 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:

> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:39:48 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I've pointed out before, my embedded project has to pass government
> > audit labs.  The less they have to audit the better.  I don't NEED
> > pthreads, so I'd prefer to not have to actually compile stuff with it
> > or have it around.  Slowly but surely I'm removing everything that is
> > not actually needed from this project.
> 
> Actually, I forgot to mention, it's actually in the legislation for
> some of the jurisdictions the client wants to get this embedded device
> into that there is NOTHING on the device that is not involved with it's
> function as a device of that type.  So if I'm not using pthreads in my
> app, and nothing else that is required for the OS to operate is using
> pthreads, then it's not allowed to be there.  By law.
> 
> Yes, I'm well aware that some things are just gonna be in the OS as
> excess baggage.  Things that will be very hard to strip out.  Same goes
> for every other OS being used for this class of devices.  We just have
> to live with it.  At least I got a bit more choice than the Windows
> developers.
> 
> I'm happy to cut out stuff I don't use anyway.  B-)

well heads up. in the future expect to require threads. i have some refactoring
planned for evas that will make it a core requirement by design. :)

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