On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:14:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Congcong Kuo <congcong....@gmail.com> writes: > > > For path manipulating function they are not related to read/write > > files and path is just a kind of data structure. In > > nix/libutil/libutil.cc, paths are simply represented and processed as > > string. I think it can be easily replaced using C++ standard library > > without any harm. > > I wouldn’t be so optimistic as ‘Path’ and string operations on file > names are pervasive in the code base. > > More generally, we could reduce the size of the code base, sure, but > that’s not necessarily a win in terms of maintenance compared to a > known-good read-only code base.
I'd phrase the code as known-working. Considering how much upstream Nix has iterated over the past ~10 years on the daemon code I'd consider it an abandoned fork more than anything. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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