[vorbis-dev] Re:

[Dan Conti]

Sorry for the miscommunication here, i think the difference has to do with
how you present your code to the community. If you're providing the
libraries with the expectation that people using vorbis off the desktop
(on consoles, or embedded devices) will write their own modifications
which will not be reincorporated into the tree, then your point makes
sense. My point was just about flexibility, which only matters if you
intend to incorporate reusable changes back into the tree.

-Dan

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Monty wrote:

> > Maybe the best solution is to provide a simple mechanism for people to
> > plug in their own malloc libs. It seems clear that having people 'do it
> > themselves', in terms of search-and-replacing malloc with their own
> > allocator, isn't a very good plan, since it effectively fragments the
> > source. Additionally, there's more than one person asking for it.
> 
> Ummm... A single #define at compile time does what you [and the others that 
> have asked] want.
> 
> > There is some sort of configure script i assume? (i dont keep up,
> > sorry). Why not have it so you could do ./configure my_conf or ./configure
> > --target=my_conf, then generate a default conf file where some macro
> > MALLOC() would map onto standard malloc, and let it be at that. Then
> > everyone who wants this new feature could just create their new
> > configuration file.
> 
> One group so far wants this, and they're a group looking at customization and 
> specialized-use compilation anyway.
> 
> > It doesn't seem to warrant extended discussion.
> 
> No, not really...  We've already spent more time arguing than it would take to 
> make the change.  I haven't made the change because I'm not convinced it's a 
> good idea, not because it's hard.
> 
> Monty
> 
> 
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