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Re: ITP: libustr

On 14/11/2009 19:26, Charles Wilson wrote: 
ustr (Micro string library) is a string API for C. It has tiny overhead
over just plain strdup(), is much safer, is easier to use, is faster
for many operations, can be used with read-only or automatically
allocated data. You don't even need to link to the library to use it
(so there are no dependencies).

libustr is included in Debian:
http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/libs/ustr

Overall looks pretty good. A few nits:

1) Shouldn't the DLLs be linked with -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base? (Why this isn't the binutils default already, I really don't know.)

2) /usr/bin/ustr-import is in libustr-devel but its manpage is in libustr; these should be packaged together.

3) If libustr-debug is really just meant for debugging purposes and won't be used in other packages, I think the DLL should also be part of libustr-devel.


Yaakov

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