Re: portable use of 'dd'

2008-05-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > This particular case is only weak evidence that 'dd' needs to be in > the list, since the code uses 'dd' only when /dev/urandom is readable, > and I expect that 'dd' is supported everywhere /dev/urandom is. On the other hand, can you point out a system which does n

Re: portable use of 'dd'

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Berry
This particular case is only weak evidence that 'dd' needs to be in the list, since the code uses 'dd' only when /dev/urandom is readable, and I expect that 'dd' is supported everywhere /dev/urandom is. So, I'm inclined to do nothing. /dev/urandom is surely less portable than dd, so t

Re: getpass documentation

2008-05-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Thanks, below is an updated patch. OK. Are you going to commit that? > -Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: > +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{getpass-gnu}: > @itemize > @item > -This function is missing on some platforms: > -mingw, BeOS. > +The

new module 'propername'

2008-05-18 Thread Bruno Haible
This module was already presented in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-09/msg00055.html After fixing this issues mentioned by Ben Pfaff and Paul Eggert, I'm moving it from GNU gettext into gnulib. I'll also update the GNU gettext documentation to refer to it. 2008-05-18 Bruno H

Re: proper names

2008-05-18 Thread Bruno Haible
On 2006-09-07, I replied to Paul Eggert: > > Second, this code does not look right: > > > > > /* See whether the translation contains the original name. */ > > > if (strstr (translation, name) != NULL) > > > > Some translations might contain the name accidentally. > > As an extreme c

Re: Re: proper names

2008-05-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Ben Pfaff wrote on 2006-09-06, about the proposed 'propername' module: > I like the module. But I think that the background and usage > that you included in your message should be checked in also, so > that it's clear. I would not, for example, immediately think to > update the XGETTEXT_OPTIONS v