Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012 schrieb Hrvoje Niksic: > Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]> writes: > > > Let's be realistic, is there any platform/system (with more than 3 > > users) where C99 is a problem? > > > > Visual Studio is not a problem as there are other ways to build wget on > > Windows that don't stick us to something more than 20 years old. > > If Wget is no longer concerned with portability to older compilers and > architectures, there should be an announcement so that the decision can > at least be discussed before it's implemented. >
That is always a good idea. Guiseppe could also just state, that the upcoming 2.x version needs c99 and / or POSIX200x. Backports to C89 1.x version could easily be made by interested persons. Nobody would really be hurt by such a decision. Regards, Tim
