On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:17:14AM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> Is libposix complete enough to link against for real programs yet? If
> not, why should it be included at this time?
I agree that if the only thing that works at this moment is the simplest "Hello
world" program, that it should not be packaged yet.
> Moreover, can libposix and libc coexist in the same address space?
What address space are you talking about? There is also dietlibc and uClibc,
who can coexist with glibc. But applications can only link against one of them
at the time of course.
> If not, all of debian's existing libraries will be incompatible with it.
> It seems like the sort of thing that you might want to build an entire
> distro against, or a custom/development build against, but not just
> some programs in a distro...
Having a glibc replacement for just a few programs is not an argument in itself
for not including this package. Perhaps I want to develop a program that needs
to run in an embedded environment that I want to test? Then I'd like to have a
libposix-dev package that I can use to build my own software with.
--
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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