new date option for busybox

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:05, walter harms wrote:
> hi list,
> the patch add the option -D <hind>. it is intended to bypass the normal
> parser for -d <string> and invokes strptime() directly for conversion.
> some changes were need (e.g. conversion from define -> enum).
>
> The -D option can make the parser for -d obsolete. It could be disabled
> so safe bytes if enough ppl care.
>
> note: -D option is my idea and not in gnu date or somewhere else
> (strange!). i posted it some time ago on the list already and was ask to
> make it an config option. a patch for kconfig will follow.
>
> re,
>   walter

Your change of #defines to enums and your reorganization of the ugly inline 
#ifdefs into ugly out of line #ifdefs is totally unrelated to the new 
feature, isn't it?

I tend to prefer cleanup patches either be submitted seperately from 
functional changes, or else submitted by the maintainer of the relevant 
applet who knows more about the code than I do anyway.  Just sayin'...

(Oh, and the bit adding while(0)...  This is why we have ENABLE_FEATURE...)

Rob
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