On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:45:28 +1100, Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Carl Worth wrote:
> > Yes. I knew I was "cheating" by using some GNU extensions here. I'm
> > happy to accept portability patches for these things, but it's hard for
> > me to get excited about writing them myself.
> > 
> > Care to take a whack at these?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/
> 
> could be a partial answer.
> 
Why add yet another dependency for a couple of functions? Especially
considering how notmuch already depends on glib which includes portability
functions for various things.

alex