[fetchmail-devel] Re: r3995 - trunk

[Graham W. <gr...@mk...>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:35:16PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Brian Candler <B.C...@po...> writes:
> > What do other projects do with regard to snprintf or lack of it? How many
> > Unix systems lack snprintf these days?
> 
> I don't know, but I wouldn't want to break compatibility in a patchlevel
> or minot update. If we drop all the cruft,  we need to call it 7.0 - and
> we'd instead need to get out 6.2.6 or 6.3.0 soon.  We can change
> requirements an drop compatibility cruft for a later major version.

I think this is probably a good path to go down. Forget about sprintf
usage for now, and consider our alternatives after we have a few more
minor 6.2.x releases done.

At that point we could consider dropping support for systems without
snprintf, or figuring what other code to integrate.

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