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Message-ID: <53C0F580.4060207@skarnet.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:44:48 +0100
From: Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc@...rnet.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Status towards next release (1.1.4)
On 12/07/2014 08:24, u-igbb@...ey.se wrote:
> For me it looks like you take a wrong kind of responsibility and try to
> make a decision which does not belong to a library developer.
>
> This is an "integrator" decision, the one who knows how the library will
> be used and what is the corresponding environment's policy of placing
> stuff around in the file system.
>
> In other words, as long as it is configurable, any "default" goes.
> You can not know (and imho do _not_ have to pretend to) what is best or
> sensible for the actual deployment.
>
> As an "integrator" I am concerned in the following way:
>
> - If locale is mostly static (additions or changes to locale
> can be done at the same time as library recompilations/upgrades)
> then a "default" placement is totally irrelevant, but I must be
> able to choose the actual one at compilation time - I guess this is
> expected and hence a non-issue
+1 and QFT.
Policy should not be included in software, but delegated to the user
(sysadmins and distributors). There should be a reasonable default, but
configurability is a lot more important than the exact default value.
--
Laurent
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