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Re: base85 would it be accepted
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Eric Blake |
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Re: base85 would it be accepted |
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Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:40:07 -0600 |
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On 11/21/2017 05:01 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
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> The idea would be that both could be symlinks to
> 'baseN', which would automatically generate the correct output
> for either tool. There's no requirement that that the base32
> and base64 tools be removed, it's just that there "should" be no
> _need_ to keep the special-case programs.
Except that GNU Coding Standards recommend that we do NOT make behavior
dependent on argv[0] unless existing standards require that, so that a
user can rename their app but still get the same behavior.
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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