> We plan to switch to compiling with --std=c99 and targetting all new code > work to c99 best practices. First we need to make sure existing code > compiles with c99.
I came in on the tail end of this part of the conversation. Yesterday afternoon I spent about half an hour doing a first pass towards getting it compiling with -std=c99 (it didn't end up being a trivial set of changes so I backed it out without even a local commit) Things that become interesting with a strict -std=c99 compile are common things like strdup() not being strictly part of c99, but rather POSIX or BSD things (so you need a #define __USE_BSD or whatever somewhere appropriate). strcasecmp and strncasecmp (both of which we use quite a bit) need to be included from strings.h rather than string.h (the latter usually automagically includes the former, but not in strict c99 mode). Targetting -std=gnu99 was easier, from memory I only had to add strings.h to the files using str[n]casecmp to get it building On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > Present: Bron, Jeroen, Ken, Matt, Simon, Ellie > > Anthony has resigned from the Cyrus Foundation due to personality > conflicts and cultural mismatch with the team. I have reverted the > commits that happened during the week that I was was away, and then > cherry-picked the ones that I was satisfied were stable or easily > fixable. > > We still plan to go ahead with simplifying the configure script - but > we'll do it as small, testable changes and make sure they keep working > with our target plaforms and don't block everyone else's workflow. > > We plan to switch to compiling with --std=c99 and targetting all new code > work to c99 best practices. First we need to make sure existing code > compiles with c99. > > Ken: has a bunch of commits almost ready to go, but just needed to track > down one more bug first. > > Matt: has been away for a month, moving and had a good holiday. Welcome > back. Is going to work on cleaning up lib/ - working with Jeroen to make > sure it all works with the configure changes. > > Ken: libical - almost everything currently used by Cyrus in is libical > git. There's a bug on nonsense recrurrence startdate which causes it to > spin forever - needs to be fixed. > > Ellie: new sync code on master. Will back it out from 2.5 for 2.5.1 > release - probably tomorrow. > > Bron: got it compiling with clang. Bugfixes for some issues at FastMail. > Master is on FastMail testing now, with Ellie's changes. Worked > together to make sync backwards compatible back to 2.4. Planning to ship > master code to FM production tomorrow if issues with dav database can be > tracked down. > > We have a potential new programmer who applied to FastMail at just the > right time, and is interested in working on Cyrus. He's a programming > student in France. Bron and Pierre to Skype interview during the week. > Hoping to meet in person while Bron is in Europe in early May. > > Cyrus talk at openSUSE/Kolab summit: need to prepare Abstract and Bio - > Hans is on my case! > > Due to the daylight savings changes squashing Europe closer to Australia, > the UTC 2200 time doesn't work so well any more, so the next meeting will > be pushed later on Thursday: 2015-04-16T11:00:00Z. > > Bron. > > > -- > Bron Gondwana > br...@fastmail.fm
