xstr, mkstr

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 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.

Then shall this be tabled until that is finished please?

> 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.

So add "Old", "Broken" to the list of critera and lets move on?
Cost of taking this to pkg base should be 0, cost of this
conversation is already >>> 0.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org