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  3. February 2005

RE: win32 update

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Ruel, Marc-Antoine wrote:

Could old timers comment on that? Undoing things is not my favourite activity but in this case I can't say it's giving that much of "profit" for the project. I think I'll take a look at the archives to learn a bit the motivations behind this. 

It looks like it all began in this thread:

http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/200005/msg00097.html

Mike had some reasons for using glib, but I don't know what they were. Portability of malloc() and free() maybe?

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