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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: What to do about libidn?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f72142d-92ed-8039-fb8c-dd2981a3127f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b77b43c-f255-6401-5648-0b5cc405cf4b@redhat.com>

On 11/09/2016 07:02 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> In the broader picture, I think we should discourage out-of-tree
> ports and functionality as much as possible because if something is
> not part of regular builds because it's not in the official source
> tree, we might only learn about fundamental incompatibilities after a
> release or two, which would be annoying.  So I'd suggest the remove
> the add-on mechanism eventually.

Agreed.

I would also vote for out-of-tree functionality to be removed.

Users can simply have cloned trees with their own patches, and help
in the overall library maintenance or work with upstream to integrate
their changes.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-11 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-08 11:52 Florian Weimer
2016-11-08 15:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-08 15:59   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-09  7:53     ` Petr Spacek
2016-11-08 23:30 ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-09 12:02   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-09 16:03     ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-11 19:53     ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2016-11-10 15:32   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-11 19:49   ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-11-11 21:16     ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-11 19:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-11-11 20:00 ` Carlos O'Donell

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