Two opinions on ropes

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/89440/focus=89529

In general, I agree with Mike but may be Josh is right in this particular case?

Popularity of boost versus popularity of pcre

Recently, there were two recursive PKGREVISION bumps in pkgsrc. One was after an update of devel/boost and the other was after an update of devel/pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). 59 files were bumped after boost update and 1657 + 68 files were bumped after pcre update. Even though boost has its own regex library but  it's way less popular in open-source world than pcre. You can draw your conclusions.

posix_close

Quote from 0000529:

This was reopened on the 16 Feb meeting; action to Eric to propose a wording for Issue 8 that mandates Linux and Solaris behavior on close(), as well as add a new posix_close(int fd, int flags) which can be used to give HP-UX behavior.