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Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc |
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:03:37 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> how about we go one step
> further, and have a deprecation period, where for a year or so, we provide
> mbase_name (returns NULL on failure) and xbase_name (calls xmalloc on
> failure) but no base_name.
There's a better solution that doesn't involve waiting a year, and
deprecation, and so forth (problems that gnulib is supposed to avoid).
We just change the name of the unprefixed function. Its name already
reflects that; it is called "base_name" because it means something
different from the standard "basename".
So I propose that we simply change the name of "base_name" to
"gbasename" (or whatever other name you like), and do something
similar with the other functions.
- findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc, Jim Meyering, 2008/08/28
- Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc, Jim Meyering, 2008/08/29
- Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc, Bruno Haible, 2008/08/29
- Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc, Jim Meyering, 2008/08/29
- Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc, Eric Blake, 2008/08/29
- Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc, Jim Meyering, 2008/08/29
- Re: findprog: don't exit => exit-free base_name, dir_name, etc,
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