Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/09/2010 11:04 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Indeed. But since mingw has it but MSVC doesn't, this raises the
> question: how important is the MSVC porting platform (use Microsoft's
> compiler and include files [proprietary but downloadable at zero cost
> from Microsoft's web site], with possibly a wrapper script like
> 'cccl')?

I think for mingwex-provided function we should not mark modules as
obsolete outright; it depends on the amount of code and dependencies, IMO.

> On one hand, there have been attempts to add support for this
> platform to libtool. On the other hand, this platforms lacks
> <dirent.h>, opendir, readdir, but we have not had a single request
> for supporting this in gnulib in 7 years.

dirent functions are actually not _that_ much used.

Paolo