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Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:21:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > It would be a good idea to update to the most recent version of
> > strftime.c and mktime.c. Surely this is not very hard, even if it
> > requires rewriting the relevant parts of Emacs from zero.
>
> The gnulib maintainer said it's not trivial, the gnulib infrastructure
> has changed.
>
> "The gnulib infrastructure has changed" is very general.
> What is the change that makes this difficult?
No idea, that's what I was told.
> My suggestion is to get the latest version of these facilities
> from gnulib and change Emacs to use them. Why would any change
> in gnulib interfere with that?
AFAIU getting "the latest version of these facilities from gnulib" is
not very simple... We'd need to find a volunteer to do it. It's not
a very rewarding job, what we have now works and it hasn't changed in
years...
- convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/11/15
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/15
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Richard Stallman, 2010/11/15
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/11/16
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Richard Stallman, 2010/11/17
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Richard Stallman, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Sam Steingold, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Sven Joachim, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/19
- Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/19