[Asterisk-Dev] Re: ast_localtime() weird interface.

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> That may be true, but until FreeBSD made this 64-bit conversion, every
> system has managed this fine.  Given that Rizzo is a FreeBSD developer,
> he is in a unique position to make sure that FreeBSD does the right
> thing and fixes this issue that appears to be unique to FreeBSD.
That's a silly attitude. You have two different APIs, some mandated by SUS 
(Single Unix System, aka OSF aka Unix Group) some are inherited back from 
4BSD, etc. You expect both of them to have same datatype. That's 
unreasonable. Best you can hope for is that one of them will be available. 

Just because it works on your linux box, does not mean that software that
expects to be portable can assume that.

> We can't be held hostage to dumb design decisions on alternative
> platforms.
I think to everyone reading the list, it is fairly clear what is dumb...

-alex