Hi Rüdiger,

being late to the thread, and being the one who implicitly initiated
this ...

> Why would you copy additional stuff into binfilter?

Because binfilter has a code base which lives several years in the past,
whilst the current code base moves forward constantly. At some point,
you simply can't stretch this any further.

My recent problem was some changes in basic (not basctl), which let the
build break in binfilter. There was no reasonable way (I could see) how
to adapt this in binfilter: I would have needed to back-port large parts
of SFX to BF_SFX (plus probably more), just to be able to use the new
basic API. That's certainly nothing I would do, as it bears a completely
unknown risk of breakage.

We once decided to freeze binfilter, IMO we cannot reasonably expect
that it will always be possible to adjust this stone-aged code to the
latest and greatest code which has undergone multiple years of
additional development.

Ciao
Frank

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