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Re: [Nmh-workers] slocal(1) and its dbm_open(3) Use.


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] slocal(1) and its dbm_open(3) Use.
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:16:00 -0500

>> If we just made it optional then the few people who cared would be
>> required to set CPPFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS appropriately.
>
>True, but `it's POSIX' and that was used for iconv to make it mandatory.
>And optional means the code and the tests have to be that bit more
>complex.

If this was used in more than one tiny location, I'd find this compelling.
But it's not quite the same as our use of iconv(), which happens in a bunch
of places and can be legitimately be argued as core functionality.

--Ken



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