On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:41:48PM +0000, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
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> Hello Linus,
>=20
>=20
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote:
> > > >=20
> > > >   Because it's GNU and that it's a heavy dependency to begin with.
> > >=20
> > > So it's more of a political decision then a technical one?
> >=20
> > I'd *strongly* argue against new dependencies unless they buy us
> > something major.
> >=20
> > We've been good at cutting them down, including any required
> > libraries internally. We shouldn't add new ones.
> >=20
> > So we'd have to include GNU getopt sources with the git tree, at
> > which point any advantage would be gone. Might as well include a
> > private and simpler version of our own.
>=20
>=20
> From what I understand argp is part of glibc.

  And of course requiring the glibc would be a big step forward for the
msys (or AIX, or HP-UX, or =E2=80=A6) port !

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=C2=B7O=C2=B7  Pierre Habouzit
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