Re: MINT

[Alan Hourihane]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:49 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > I have more patches to gnulib for MINT. Shall I just file them as bugs ?
> 
> It depends how serious MINT as a platform is. What is MINT at all? Why does
> it lack basic functions like mbrtowc, standardized in ANSI C Amendment 1?

MINT runs on the Atari ST. You can google FreeMiNT.

> Is this platform in active development? If so, it might be easier to add the
> missing functions or fix the bugs that might be uncovered by gnulib's tests.

There's only a handful of developers with minimal time. It was easier to add
support via gnulib than adding the missing functionality to the libc at this 
time. It certainly might be something that would be considered later though.

> Did you try to run the complete gnulib unit tests?
>   $ ./gnulib-tool --test --with-tests

I have run individual tests, but I can run the whole suite.

Alan.