Re: Portability of libtextstyle

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for the quick answer!

> Le 26 juil. 2020 à 17:25, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Akim,
> 
> The new functions (for hyperlinks and ostream_printf) are contained in
> prerelease tarballs that I've been circulating, but not contained in any
> release so far.

I had not realized.

>> Another point is that I expected --without-libtextstyle-prefix to disable
>> explicitly libtextstyle, but apparently it doesn't
>> (https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00037.html).
> 
> For me, --without-libtextstyle-prefix works as expected:

Ah, the user must have done something wrong then, sorry about that.

>> I can submit changes once I know what options you prefer.
> 
> I propose that I make a gettext release ASAP (today?), that includes the new
> libtextstyle API, then you can refer all users to gettext-0.21.

I don't want to push you into a hurried release.  Anyway I think it's
more important for Bison to be able to avoid unsuitable versions of
libtextstyle than to have more widespread proper support.

I have to leave now, but I can send a patch first thing tomorrow.

Cheers!