Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16-Aug-06, 04:00 (CDT), Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This will never work. Real life example from a couple of weeks ago: I >> wrote a program that was running happily on Sarge, then somebody wanted >> to build it on RHEL and failed because the UUID library on RHEL does not >> have uuid_unparse_lower(). > > So you chose to use a function not reliably available. Sounds like bad > planning to me.
Yeah, wanting to use functionality when it's available is always a dreadful idea. Far better to reimplement it locally in order to ensure that we have more copies of it to fix should there ever be any sort of security flaw. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
