Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 12.06.2013 00:11, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working in importing tradcpp (developped by David A. Holland from
> NetBSD) into the ports tree, it is a traditional (K&R-style) C macro
> preprocessor BSD licensed. I first worked on it so that imake can work properly
> without gcc.
> 
> I discovered that some part of the base system still needs a traditional
> preprocessor, like (calendar), what I propose it to import tradcpp into the base
> system (not the version in port right now but what will become version 0.2).
> 
> It mostly behave like gcpp, and I'm able to properly use calendar along with
> tradcpp with this small patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/tradcpp.diff
> 
> Any objections against me importing it?

Shouldn't we fix calendar and imake so that they can use a modern cpp,
instead of going back 25 years?  Or am I missing the point here?