Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: standards.texi language cleanup (was: Cygwin && WIN32)

2006-05-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > * doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD > variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'. > > Before I bother rms with this, can you please explain to me the > objection to "*BSD"? I'd never heard that before. NetBSD and OpenBSD > do

Re: standards.texi language cleanup (was: Cygwin && WIN32)

2006-05-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Ralf, * doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'. Before I bother rms with this, can you please explain to me the objection to "*BSD"? I'd never heard that before. NetBSD and OpenBSD don't like being lump

standards.texi language cleanup (was: Cygwin && WIN32)

2006-05-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:07:01PM CEST: > Paul Eggert wrote: > > > > Would WOE32_NATIVE be a better name? > > Many people believe code should be neutral. FWIW, I agree. After all, POSIX_ME_HARDER was dropped, too. I removed occurrences of M$VC and *BSD from the Libtool sour