Re: [Bug-gnulib] drop unlocked-io dependency in getline module?

[Karl Berry]

    Anyone else bothered about this?

Yes.  The whole reason gnulib exists, more or less, is because it is
impossible to copy code out of libc.  And gnulib has gotten steadily
more and more complex (although it's not as bad as libc yet).  In the
beginning, it was simple files in /gd/gnu/lib, you copied the files into
your source distribution, that was it.  Now, of course I realize that
that is not scalable, and the gnulib module system is all to the good,
but ... I know I am not looking forward to upgrading Texinfo to using
all the gnulib modules, precisely because of all those dependencies.

However, since I'm not doing the programming, I don't feel like my
opinion should carry much weight.

    The "malloc" module also has a nasty side effect of redefining core
    C functionality (#define malloc rpl_malloc)

I haven't imported all those modules yet, but as you describe it, that
seems highly problematic?