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Re: doc update
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: doc update |
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:04:11 +0100 |
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> The problem with this approach is that people will have only negative
> information to decide when it would make sense to use a
> gnulib-replacement module for a function, to deal with the platform that
> doesn't yet implement it.
>
> Personally, I think that if glibc, Mac OS X, cygwin and maybe Solaris
> supported some interface I may want to start rely on it as a maintainer,
> if I can get a replacement function into gnulib. But if only glibc
> supports an API, and there is no strong compelling reason to use it, I
> may prefer to use POSIX interfaces instead.
The question "which platforms support a given interface?" is, I think, best
answered by the symbols x platforms matrix that I'm maintaining at
http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/various-symlists.tar.gz
Feel free to provide updates to me; also feel free to provide a other
interfaces to it (such as automatically generated .texi docs) if you want.
So, I agree with you that this info is important for some decisions people
want to make. But OTOH I find that it is out of scope for gnulib, because
gnulib's target API is POSIX and glibc, not Solaris and not FreeBSD.
Bruno
- doc update, Bruno Haible, 2009/11/24
- Re: doc update, Simon Josefsson, 2009/11/25
- Re: doc update, Eric Blake, 2009/11/25
- Re: doc update, Simon Josefsson, 2009/11/25
- Re: doc update, Eric Blake, 2009/11/25
- Re: doc update, Simon Josefsson, 2009/11/25
- Re: doc update, Eric Blake, 2009/11/25
- Re: doc update, Simon Josefsson, 2009/11/26
- Re: doc update,
Bruno Haible <=
- Re: doc update, Simon Josefsson, 2009/11/26
- Re: symbols x platforms matrix, Bruno Haible, 2009/11/26
- Re: symbols x platforms matrix, Simon Josefsson, 2009/11/26
- Re: symbols x platforms matrix, Eric Blake, 2009/11/26
- Re: symbols x platforms matrix, Michael Haubenwallner, 2009/11/26
- Re: symbols x platforms matrix, Martin Lambers, 2009/11/26
Re: doc update, Bruno Haible, 2009/11/25