On 2 Oct 2003, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:53:37PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 14 Aug 2003, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: glibc > > > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-14 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I'm surprised there isn't already something similiar to strnatcmp in glibc > > > <URL: http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/> but both functions would > > > certainly be usable. > > > > > > The license appear to allow for the inclusion of both functions, so hopefully > > > this isn't a huge to deal to get included. > > > > glibc has strverscmp(). > > strnatcmp() is much nicer IMO. Far more descriptive.
Yes, the semantics are a little different. If you think you can persuade the glibc maintainers to take it then I'd be happy to support it. > > The strnatcmp licence was necessary to merge it into Apache, which is > > not possible with the GNU implementation. > > Does that mean you would be unwilling to relicense it - should it be > required - to get it into GNU libc? At the moment it is under zlib, which is (I think) strictly weaker than GNU GPL. So they can either use it as is, or I can relicense it. -- Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
