On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Roy Marples <[email protected]> wrote: >> comparing a netbsd pseudostandard and posix is indeed a weird comparison >> (you vastly overestimate the importance of netbsd vs. an extremely widely >> implemented industry standard), but you missed the crucial difference: >> getline is NOT visible in the standard header file until it is requested >> to show up. > > It is visible by default the latest glibc I think.
You ignore the point I made: netbsd is not posix (no pun intended) and simply doesn't have the power to force it's api as standard on the rest of the world easily (GNU/Linux has vastly more power, but it sitll is nothing compared to, say, posix). But it is obvious that you don't care - that's the real problem. >> and getline did not conflict with programs not asking for extensions >> explicitly, which urxvt does not do on netbsd. > > It does now with the latest glibc. > It's also visible by default in NetBSD-current And it is not causing a problem here. >> so it's fixed and the workaround in urxvt is not needed anymore(?) > > No, rxvt needs to be fixed. First of all, I don't control rxvt, second, I don't control netbsd, I only control rxvt-unicode, and there is no bug in rxvt-unicode, so it cannot fix anything. > You'll have to argue with someone else ([email protected]) if you want it > "fixed" in NetBSD The quotes are entirely inappropriate - it's quite assy of you to claim that something needs fixing in urxvt when the problem is only in netbsd. You could at least play nice and acknowledge that the problem is in netbsd, even if netbsd doesn't care to fix it and requires other applications to work around it. This attitude is what makes people annoyed about netbsd - there is nothing that needs fixing in urxvt, and you quite well know that, even if for publicity reasons you act as if there were a problem. Why you think thats appropriate, nobody knows, but it doesn't pay off. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
