-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Friesenhahn on 5/20/2008 10:14 AM: | On Tue, 20 May 2008, Eric Blake wrote: |> Also, would anyone be interested in a patch that renames argz_.h to |> argz.in.h to match gnulib? Gnulib recently changed to avoid _ in file |> names where possible, and these days, platforms that don't handle two |> . in |> a file name are generally not worth porting to. |> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=5155f7d | | Isn't one of those platforms versions of Microsoft Windows?
No. All versions of Windows and porting platforms on top of Windows (think mingw, cygwin, interix), and even, for that matter, FAT and NTFS file system drives on Linux, support long file names (which implies multiple dots). It is only the old DOS 8.3 short file names that can't handle double dots, but DJGPP has not been actively developed for several years. | | What qualifies a platform as not being worth porting to? It's somewhat subjective. The gnulib mailing list has come up with an ad-hoc definition of any platform released within the last 3-5 years, and preferably where the vendor has not declared the platform end-of-life, while also supporting older platforms where the vendor is still actively providing support. So, as an example, Solaris 4 and Windows 95 are generally not viable porting targets (their vendors no longer support them), but HP-UX 10.20 seems to still generate regular support issues. The autoconf mailing list has tried to support an even wider array of platforms than gnulib. On the other hand, we can pretty much concede that any platform worth targetting these days has a C89 (or almost C89) compiler; the need to support K&R compilers as the primary vendor compiler for bootstrapping a system has pretty much died in the last two or three years. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgzbR8ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBvnACgtKbtMiVlDBl11vZhLhKmq8se /OAAnR1hhqbh01HTze1sWjblgTAK0p3P =UJpC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
