xstr, mkstr

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>
> But, as I said early, lets just shelf all this "lets remove this or
> that cause of foo" until package base is done, and then a group of
> people should create a documented critiria list of what should or
> should not be in the base system, and do a tree wide sweep rather
> than have 100+ threads over the next 5 years about this or that.
>

It does tie into the deprecation stuff too.

xstr, at least, needs major work to support modern C dialects. It's not
just old, it's also broken. A quick stroll through the code shows this. It
should go because it's not worth taking with us to pkg base.

Warner