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RE: Re: MSVC compiler support [patch 13]: glob.h and fnmatch.h
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
RE: Re: MSVC compiler support [patch 13]: glob.h and fnmatch.h |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:16:09 -0400 |
On 25-Oct-2006, address@hidden wrote:
| >> Do you mean a glob library that would be part of octave source tree? Or
| >> an external one?
| >
| > I would rather not include the glob code in the Octave sources.Perhaps we
could
| > distribute it from the same place as Octave, but separately. I also don't
think it should
| > be optional.jwe
|
| It's up to you, although the glob library is only 2 C-files... Then I guess
the best is to
| package it in such a way that it can be compiled with cccl as well. With a
few changes,
| I could compile the glob library and use it in octave. The main change was to
provide
| opendir/readdir/... implementations, as I did already for octave (I simply
copy/paste'd
| the code). If glob is package separately, then I guess these utility
functions could also
| be put there and octave could simply use them, instead of having its own
implementation.
OK, please send the modified files and I will reconsider. Where did
these latest versions of the glob files come from? How can we be sure
that we keep up with any changes that are made to the upstream
sources?
jwe