[Python-Dev] snprintf breaks build (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@beopen.com
Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:46:02 -0400 (EDT)

"Fred" == Fred L Drake, Jr <fdrake@beopen.com> writes:

Fred>   Hmm.  I think the issue with known existing snprintf()
Fred> implementations with Open Source licenses was that they were
Fred> at least somewhat contanimating.  I'll switch back to
Fred> sprintf() until we have a portable snprintf()
Fred> implementation.

In Mailman, I used the one from GNU screen, which is obviously GPL'd. But Apache also comes with an snprintf implementation which doesn't have the infectious license. I don't feel like searching the archives, but I'd be surprised if Greg Stein /didn't/ suggest this a while back.

-Barry