From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: What to do about libidn?
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611091602540.7263@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b77b43c-f255-6401-5648-0b5cc405cf4b@redhat.com>
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Given that glibc's libidn add-on is not itself a public ABI or API,
> > dlopening an external library would seem a reasonable way of implementing
> > that getaddrinfo functionality.
>
> Would you prefer us to do that, or to drop AI_IDN support completely?
I don't have a view on that, beyond that it's not normal for us to drop a
supported ABI for existing binaries.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-09 16:03 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 [this message]
2016-11-11 19:53 ` Carlos O'Donell
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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