Re: CVS commit: src

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:19:02AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:21:02PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:18:38PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > Convert db from UCB types to POSIX types. Prefer uint8_t for u_char as
> > > it is mostly about the wire format.
> > 
> > This is in preparation for dropping a copy of btree into pkg_install and
> > to keep the diff for pkgsrc and in-tree version small. It also removes
> > one of the places where the tools depend on the non-POSIX types.
> 
> Great!
> 
> Where was it discussed?

Which part? Conversion to POSIX has been discussed on various lists over
the years, generally with a fix-as-you-go result. Last time was two
weeks ago in tech-kern.  For this specific change I talked with Luke
and asked Matt for review. Reasons are given in the commit message.

Provide db for pkg_install was discussed with jlam and solves one of the
asymmetries we had for ages. With the choice of doing the cleanup before
copying the code and doing it in pkgsrc afterwards, I strongly prefer
doing it in src, as it helps also for the cross-compiling toolchain.

Joerg