From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FA323858D28 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:58:02 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 4FA323858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1674557881; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=nWMgfl33fhAMIZgGbkAbzulXE/pk7TjGMhJNwU/q2ag=; b=gssJS3/bbh5p+CIF11uHyCYhTgvmjQU5ys0d+37aHSS8SnKD/Gz8n4Gi6gXuRR0iDzg6r4 CM7KP2EWkTfrXfdmlyIXY6QSKZTeC2R7s3of6MYB9SbFFXl5d/3TaQ/aeeoKk8w67Bl78o WvfkB+CF4L5BOQVkmwaaNwOZhAQ/I88= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-583-47bn0l-4P-ON8bMLXWWBEw-1; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:57:59 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 47bn0l-4P-ON8bMLXWWBEw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B0363813F24; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from calimero.vinschen.de (unknown [10.39.192.5]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65CBE1121330; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D63F6A8075A; Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:57:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:57:57 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Ignacio Vargas Cc: newlib@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Issues subscribing to mailing list Message-ID: Reply-To: newlib@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: Ignacio Vargas , newlib@sourceware.org References: <8c916ff2-2394-6942-864a-d8b4b8bfb2f5@rapidsilicon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8c916ff2-2394-6942-864a-d8b4b8bfb2f5@rapidsilicon.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.3 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Jan 23 18:53, Ignacio Vargas wrote: > Greetings, > > > I've been trying to subscribe to the mailing list throughout the past few > hours but whenever I click the "subscribe" button the site returns me a 500 > error code and then it seems the whole site goes down for a while. In which > case, I want to apologize for bringing down the site multiple times today. > I'm writing to the mailing list to get help with this issue because I needed > to join to ask some questions and I can't find an "administrator" contact > anywhere on the site. There's a mailing list for that, please ask there. > In the interest of possibly saving us some time I'm also going to mention > what I needed to ask about. In case the answer is a simple "no" then I won't > have anymore to say anyways, but please don't feel obligated at all to > answer my query: > >  I was considering writing a stripped-down baremetal version of > argp > (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argp.html#index-argp-_0028program-argument-parser_0029) > from glibc. I was wondering if I could write it as a contribution to > newlib and, similarly to glibc's argp, write it using getopt. I > mostly don't know if newlib would accept it because it's a library > specific to GNU-C. Newlib already has a couple of GNU-specific functions implemented, so that's no problem. The only potential problem is the license. If you write your argp implementation from scratch, you can use any BSD-like license you like. However, if you take the gloibc code as base, your code would be GPLed, which is not feasible for almost all targets supported by newlib. Corinna