Re: More psiconv woes


Subject: Re: More psiconv woes
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 12:18:03 CST


On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it depends on what Frodo wants. The options are:
> > >
> >> 1) use UT_strdup in our version of psiconv, and thus have them forked
> >> (if only slightly), assuming he doesn't want to include our util code.
> >>
> >> 2) use something other than strdup in the main tree of psiconv.
> >>
> >
> >If Frodo really cared about portability he would write his own
> >"strdup()" function and use it instead.
>
> He can probably borrow the implementation we have in AbiWord :-)
> But this scares me as this would duplicate code. Perhaps finding a
> way to combine both, ie use its own strdup if none is available, but
> use UT_strdup if we compile psiconv within AbiWord :-))
>

Which is of course what autoconf is for. Back to that todo list,
Sam. :-)

           
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