On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
- There is also PR/45893. The reason why these changes were not made
are
concerns about breaking backwards compatibility (apparently, there are
3rd party users of this library already). In theory, it is not too
late,
as netbsd-6 will be the first release shipping rbtree(3), but we
need to
reach the consensus on this.
Seems to me, we ought to get this "right" before we formally ship.
The "early adopters" who are already using rbtree(3) already should be
few in number and hopefully we could work with them to adapt to the
changes.