>I can assure you that when writing code for microcontrollers with 2 kilobytes of code space, we don't include a 14 kilobyte string formatting library... then

>I can assure you that when writing code for microcontrollers with 2 kilobytes of code space, we don't include a 14 kilobyte string formatting library... then the thing to do is publish the libraries you do use, right, then document what formatting features they support? then other people might discover more and clever ways to pack more features in than you thought of otherwise, I don't get your point.