Jim Meyering wrote:
> Go ahead and declare these modules "obsolescent", but
> rather than ripping out all dependencies on them,
> add an option to gnulib-tool (say, --ignore-obsolescent)
> to tell it to do ignore any dependency on an obsolescent module.
Good idea. I'm adding a gnulib-tool command
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Go ahead and declare these modules "obsolescent", but
> rather than ripping out all dependencies on them,
> add an option to gnulib-tool (say, --ignore-obsolescent)
> to tell it to do ignore any dependency on an obsolescent module.
Good idea. For this, it's necessary to forma
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Why not document "using the strdup module for the sake of replacing
> strdup is now obsolete", removing the dependency when POSIX behavior is
> not required
ok, why not?
> and calling strdup-posix just strdup?
IMO it does not hurt to keep the module 'strdup' around, for pa