[augeas-devel] Initial Ustr attempt

[David Lutterkort]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:29 -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:45 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> > This is an initial attempt to use Ustr[1] in augeas instead of "struct
> > string" ... it's mostly the least amount of work possible to do a port,
> > however I also converted make_regexp() from (char *) to (Ustr *) because
> > of the way that consumed the externally allocated data.
> 
> My first question is: is ustr widely enough available ? Including
> platforms like OS/X and FreeBSD ? If not, is it possible to pull ustr
> into the source tree on those platforms, similar to how gnulib is being
> pulled in ?
> 
> Also, there probably needs to be some change in autoconf that checks for
> ustr and/or a flag to pull in ustr on platforms where it's not readily
> available.

Just in case it's not clear: I am all for this change, assuming the
portability concerns can be addressed.

David