On 02/18/2011 03:25 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Instead I would suggest that you create a new module that provides less guarantees than the 'stdint' module, and let 'md5' depend on that.
I considered that, but the most logical candidate for a stdint subset module is "all of stdint except for WINT_MIN, WINT_MAX, WCHAR_MIN, and WCHAR_MAX". If we called this module "stdint-sans-wchar", say, then every occurrence of "stdint" in gnulib/modules/* should be replaced by "stdint-sans-wchar". And I expect this to be true for nearly every project that uses Gnulib. This suggests that we should use the name "stdint" for the common case, and some other name for the rare case of applications that need WINT_MIN etc. It'd be easy to create a module "stdint-with-wchar" to do that, based on the patch I already sent: simply have a dummy module that depends on both stdint and wchar. But the name "stdint-with-wchar" sounds rather ad hoc. And really perhaps it is simpler just to say that if you need the wchar stuff then use the wchar module too (which you'll probably be doing anyway, so it's no big deal). This is what stdlib already does with random_r.
