Re: [RFC PATCH 03/28] cli: lil: Replace strclone with strdup

Wolfgang Denk
2021-07-03T19:26:22Z

Dear Sean,

In message <d3a91238-db2f-edbe-ecec-ddb5dc848ed7@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Well, since Hush was never updated, I don't believe LIL will be either.

Let's please be exact here: Hus has never been updated _in_U-Boot_,
but it has seen a lot of changes upstream, which apparently fix all
the issues that motivated you to look for a replacement.

> I think reducing the amount of ifdefs makes the code substantially
> easier to maintain. My intention is to just use LIL as a starting point
> which can be modified as needed to better suit U-Boot.
>
> The other half of this is that LIL is not particularly actively
> developed. I believe the author sees his work as essentially
> feature-complete, so I expect no major features which we might like to
> backport.

This sounds like an advantage, indeed, but then you can also
interpret this as betting on a dead horse...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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