On 20.07.2011 10:04, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:

>>      My concern (as a commercial developer that releases
>>      static builds) is not whether the code is used,
>>      but that it's in the lib at all.

...

>>      Still though, it should be "fixed", by which
>>      I mean either rewritten or removed.
>
> Yup. If we can determine which hosts actually need it, and the answer
> turns out to be none, then removal would be the easiest option.

This should be our first choice, if we can verify that. I hope that
Mike will give a comment on this, since he seems to know much about
what different systems provide (and maybe why it was added in the
first place).

> On the other hand, a "volunteer's worth ten pressed-men" as the saying
> goes, and if you were going to take a stab at a clean replacement, we
> could bundle that under the fltk license and that also resolves things
> (without anybody having to try and figure out why we still have it after
> all this time...!)

Agreed, but then we might have to maintain "dead" code, and given the
"complexity" of all that #if HAVE_something stuff, i'd like to remove
it for all times...

Albrecht
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