Re: Re: [UnixOS2] libc

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:03:22AM +0200, Stefan Neis wrote:
> > - a ChangeLog entry (who did what and when)
> > - a short description (why and what)
> > - the patch itself
> > - the updated docs (if necessary)
> > - the updated Makefile (if necessary; can also be done by someone else
> >   if the contributor of the patch doesn't know how to do it).
> 
> You do realize that it would take decades to incorporate all the missing
> functions from Posix/2 that way, don't you?

You do realize that some of my 2-3 lines fixes to EMX sit in the queue
for *years* now?  And while I think that EM had chosen a wrong model
for the EMX development, this is only a part of the reason.  There
*are* reasons why not all things should be harried.

> I guess, that's the point where I definitely loose interest in doing the
> project this way.

This would be a big loss.  But I hope that in a long term you might be
able to reconsider.

Currently, I do not expect that all of the "your" library can be
merged in one step.  But maybe you will be able to layer the list of
APIs into parts which require different level of discussion/QA, and
some parts of this may be merged quick.

E.g., as I said, I think that the functions with no EMX specific
implementation, and which were not in EMX before, can be merged after
a minimal discussion (and a documentation conversion) only.

Hope this helps,
Ilya