Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2009-06-01 kello 09:12 +0800, Christopher Chan kirjoitti: > >> Take that up with the GlibC guys and/or the C/C++ standards body if you >> wish and I personally do not want to see any distribution specific >> library of such functions and the resulting distribution specific >> patches of packages to use that library. >> > > The point, of course, would be to do this upstream, not just in Ubuntu. > Phew. > Whether the free software world standardizes on base-2, base-10, or > whatever-the-user-chooses, it would simplify things to have the > formatting in one place, so there's only one place to configure it. > Hence, the dedicated (sub)library. > >
Heh. Good luck changing du, ls, df, yada yada to anything other than base2 upstream. I guess KDE is the better desktop afterall. They are only half as mad as the GNOME chums. Time to look at ICEWM. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
