Hi Martin,
Am Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 09:39:48AM +0100 schrieb Martin Buck:
> back from skiing, sorry for the late reply ;-)
No need to sorry - we are all volunteers. Hope you enjoyed skiing! ;-)
> I've not had a close look yet at the salsa repo, but in general this all
> sounds reasonable. I'm fine with team maintenance in the Debian group, feel
> free to go ahead.
>
> Regarding buffer in general: IMO, it's really time to replace it with
> something else. It relies on SysV shared memory which no longer is state of
> the art and thus is quite limited these days. But I no longer use buffer
> myself, so I've not actively searched for better/more modern alternatives.
> So until we can recommend one, it probably make sense to keep buffer alive
> (or rather un-dead ;-)
Inside the Tiny Tasks Matrix channel наб asked:
"isn't mbuffer the same as buffer but better?"
According to your insight into buffer would you consider this some
sensible equivalent? If so I'd volunteer to file some RoQA bug to ask
ftpmaster for removal of buffer.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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