In your message of 8 May 2000 you write:
> In light of new information, some people have changed positions now, and
> that suggests a re-vote could actually break the deadlock.
Actually I feel now really confused. What Allan now suggest for a vote
is really different from the original A, B & C scheme.
What really gets me on this whole discussion is that every standard in
C-programming that I am aware of uses a preprocessor symbol to enable
the features (and restrict others) (XOPEN_SOURCE, POSIX_SOURCE,
STRICT_ANSI ...). But with this problem, everybody seems to like to
overcomplicate things. It's really getting frustrating.
Could we simply have a vote to either:
a) Please break exsiting applications if you define the symbol, but
enable new features automatically.
b) Please don't break exsiting applications if you define the symbol, but
disable all the new stuff automatically.
- Thomas
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