Pretty please: no more lower-case macros !!!
    Adrian Bocaniciu 
    a.bocaniciu at computer.org
       
    Thu Jan  6 03:12:27 PST 2005
    
    
  
Matthew Dillon wrote:
    Certain lower case macros can not be removed because they are
    defined by standards or manual pages and widely expected to exist
    by programs written to a standard or manual page spec.  Removing
    them would create a much larger set of incompatibilities.
						-Matt
	I thought it was obvious that I was not writing about the legacy 
well-known macros, but about the fresh macros introduced by DragonFly, 
which could never have been anticipated by the authors of the existing 
FreeBSD ports.
	I believe that the already introduced new macros must be replaced and 
no new lower-case macros must be introduced.
	Otherwise, with every new user that tries DragonFly, the chances of 
discovering more and more ports broken by such macros is increasing.
	I have found two such ports in my first ten minutes after installing 
DragonFly and I am sure that more will be found if this trend is not 
stopped.
	Best regards !
    
    
More information about the Bugs
mailing list