On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:43:51PM -0600, Spike Ilacqua wrote:
> > That's true, but if you lack inttypes.h you lack other C99 features and
> > I don't want to worry about it.
> 
> Call me crazy but if a module compiles now I don't think it should be
> exclude it because there *might* be a future portablity issue.

Almost no one uses it; there are probably 6 people on the planet who
can actually program the cards which the module supports.  I do not
want to maintain code for that small of a userbase.  The folks with
older cards which are hand-programmable already have systems they use.

I would *like it* if it becomes more popular on older platforms, and I
am slowly doing things to make it more generally useful, but for now
it's not worth it.

Why is it even in freeradius then?

a) hopefully it will become more popular
b) chicken-egg

Another part of it is that I use the same code for a PAM module (to be
released RSN) and I don't really have lots of cycles to keep the code
in sync, etc.

In general, you are correct, if it looks easy now it should just be done,
but for this specific module it's a slight headache for me even if other
people keep it maintained.  That will change as soon as I release the
PAM module (anyone wanting to make contributions can also integrate into
the PAM branch).

/fc

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