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Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc
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Edward S. Peschko |
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Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc |
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:06:31 -0800 |
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:37:27PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Edward S. Peschko wrote:
> > IMO this is a *big* problem with portability - if people are dependent on
> > glibc to 'do the right thing' with gettext, then people are silently making
> > their code unportable to non-linux systems.
>
> What concrete counter-actions do you propose?
>
> My proposal is that the one who encounters a portability problem to
> non-glibc systems reports it to the package maintainer.
I could go through the packages I support and pick out the ones that are
impacted
by the fact they presuppose glibc.. and then these errors could be submitted
via bug
reports... that combined with an auto-fix mechanism could maybe get rid of
quite a few
bugs..
Its time consuming work though; is there a cross-reference between projects and
their
home pages? Unfortunately the whole spam thing has made it very difficult to
issue
bug reports in mass - most of these mailing lists require you to be registered
in order to post. And I don't want to get deluged with thousands of messages
just for pointing out some bugs.
> > And since there doesn't seem to be much impetus to port glibc to other
> > platforms
>
> Are you aware that ports of glibc to FreeBSD and NetBSD are already in a
> usable state?
well, yes, but solaris,hpux,aix, os390, etc don't have nearly the incentive to
port
that the others have; their native equivalents of glibc are 'good enough'
for the platform.
Ed
- [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Karl Eichwalder, 2004/02/13
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Bruno Haible, 2004/02/22
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Edward S. Peschko, 2004/02/23
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Bruno Haible, 2004/02/23
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Edward S. Peschko, 2004/02/23
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Bruno Haible, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc, Bruno Haible, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Edward S. Peschko] gettext and glibc,
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