Hi, all, I wrote back on 23rd July:
> [...] Is it worth adding strfmon(3) and possibly strfmon_l(3) for > those systems that do not have it? I'm thinking primarily > OpenBSD, even in the latest version. This OS does not have > <monetary.h> either. and > [...] If the Gnulib maintainers are agreeable, I'll try setting > aside some time in the next couple of weeks to come up with a > suitable patch [...] Just to let you know that I've started work on replacement strfmon and strfmon_l functions. My current thinking, before I get too far into the task, is to: 1. Rename the monetary module to monetary-h and extend it to provide an actual replacement for <monetary.h>, a la <glob.h>. 2. Create a strfmon module to provide the strfmon() function. This will depend on monetary-h. I will almost certainly implement the function using GNU C Library (glibc) source code. I'll look at how the glob, getopt-gnu and getopt-posix modules do it... or should I be looking at other "model" modules? 3. Rework the existing strfmon_l module to provide a replacement strfmon_l() function instead of just working around bugs in old versions of glibc. Again, I'll be using current glibc code. 4. Create a replacement monetary module that depends on monetary-h, strfmon and strfmon_l, with a message that monetary is now obsolete and that programmers should use strfmon and/or strfmon_l. 5. Develop appropriate tests for all of the above. 6. Update documentation in doc/posix-headers and doc/posix-functions to suit. 7. Add appropriate lines into MODULES.html.sh and config/srclist.txt. Anything major I've forgotten? And yes, I've read Chapter 4 of the GNU Gnulib manual--in fact, I've read the whole document based on the current git sources :-) I expect the patches will need to go through a few iterations on this mailing list before being merged, of course. I've also signed the copyright assignment papers and sent those off. Yours truly, John Zaitseff -- John Zaitseff ,--_|\ The ZAP Group Phone: +61 2 9643 7737 / \ Sydney, Australia E-mail: j.zaits...@zap.org.au \_,--._* http://www.zap.org.au/ v
