[openbeos] Re: suggestions: iconv.h, libiconv, and iconv

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 00:26:17 +0200 CEST

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As far as I can tell the posix standard is to not use const:
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
> What makes me wonder a bit is, that even on Solaris const seems to 
> have 
> been used for almost ten years. And if you ask me, I would rather go 
> with the more correct const version, anyway.

Which makes me even more confident that we should break 100% Posix 
compatibility here.

> PS: When you import the stuff, please use the vendor branch and 
> choose 
> lower case `_' separated names for branch and version. That's what 
> has 
> been agreed on during some admin meeting. Moreover branch names shall 
> be prefixed by `branch_'. Though, that was about ordinary branches, I 
> think. For vendor branches maybe the vendor name only? Marcus? Axel? 
> Others?

Vendor name only is fine with me - and I think that's what we did 
anyway in the past :-)

Adios...
   Axel.


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