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> I made branch home/bkerin/require_C99 a while ago and posted about it

Posting patches is not the same as checking with all the distros we
want to be in, and OSs we want to build for, and users we want to
support, and see if requiring C99 would be a problem for any of them,
then getting the maintainers to agree that it's a reasonable
requirement, then officially making it a requirement.

This process may or may not be easy, but it hasn't been done.

We typically want to support more than just the most recent version of
anything; usually a couple semi-major versions back.  Especially since
we tend to have users and developers with old software (including me).