Re: 7.2 items

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-05-14T20:36:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Patrick Welche writes:

> > > What's missing with it?
> >
> > * portability
> >
> > At first glance, uses strlcat and strlcpy.  Didn't look further.
>
> As I said, I didn't change anything within the GNU make source to get it to
> work.

I am talking about the source of the thing (libintl) itself.

> > * dedication to portability
> >
> > Only plans to support *BSD.
>
> What does this imply?

It implies it won't easily work on non-BSD platforms, which makes it
unusable to many folks.

> > * source code availability
> >
> > Didn't find anything outside NetBSD CVS and the CVS rep where they got it
> > from.

> which I think counts as a postgresql compatible license? Is that what you
> meant?

No, I meant I can't find the source code anywhere in a polished form.

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