Re: new module 'string-buffer'

2021-02-27 Thread Bruno Haible
This patch fixes two issues with this new module. 1) The license 'LGPLv2+' is not possible, because the dependency module 'vsnprintf' is under 'LGPL' (= 'LGPLv3+'). 2) The continuous integration reported a test failure. I can reproduce it - on a Debian 10.7 system, - on an Ubuntu 16.04 system

Re: new module 'string-buffer'

2021-02-21 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, On 2/21/21 12:55 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: What alternative does gnulib offer to people who use open_memstream()? open_memstream is not portable: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/open_005fmemstream.html I mentioned this a couple of decades ago. There was no solution, so

new module 'string-buffer'

2021-02-21 Thread Bruno Haible
What alternative does gnulib offer to people who use open_memstream()? open_memstream is not portable: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/open_005fmemstream.html But gnulib cannot provide a drop-in replacement since it would require unportable stream hackery (worse that stdio-im