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Re: [Bug-wget] Portability to platforms without C99


From: Tim Rühsen
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] Portability to platforms without C99
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:14:55 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012 schrieb Hrvoje Niksic:
> Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Let's be realistic, is there any platform/system (with more than 3
> > users) where C99 is a problem?
> >
> > Visual Studio is not a problem as there are other ways to build wget on
> > Windows that don't stick us to something more than 20 years old.
> 
> If Wget is no longer concerned with portability to older compilers and
> architectures, there should be an announcement so that the decision can
> at least be discussed before it's implemented.
> 

That is always a good idea.

Guiseppe could also just state, that the upcoming 2.x version needs c99 and / 
or POSIX200x. Backports to C89 1.x version could easily be made by interested 
persons. Nobody would really be hurt by such a decision.

Regards, Tim



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