Re: [Bug-gnulib] nanosleep needs stdbool

[Paul Eggert]

Derek Robert Price <address@hidden> writes:

> nanosleep.c appears to be including stdbool.h now.  This patch adds
> the dependency to modules/nanosleep.

I'd rather not do that, for reasons discussed in the thread here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2004-08/msg00013.html

Briefly, it's too much hassle to maintain the stdbool dependency by
hand, and as time goes on some applications will start assuming C99
and the stdbool dependency will be wrong for them.  Simon Josefsson
suggested adding an option to gnulib-tool for this; this makes more
sense to me than hassling with maintained-by-hand dependencies.

If it's consistency we want, I'd rather remove all the
stdbool dependencies now.  (I recently removed a bunch
of dependences on unlocked-io, and it felt wonderful!  :-)