Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > It would be a good idea to update to the most recent version of
>     > strftime.c and mktime.c.  Surely this is not very hard, even if it
>     > requires rewriting the relevant parts of Emacs from zero.
>
>     The gnulib maintainer said it's not trivial, the gnulib infrastructure
>     has changed.
>
> "The gnulib infrastructure has changed" is very general.
> What is the change that makes this difficult?

No idea, that's what I was told.

> My suggestion is to get the latest version of these facilities
> from gnulib and change Emacs to use them.  Why would any change
> in gnulib interfere with that?

AFAIU getting "the latest version of these facilities from gnulib" is
not very simple...  We'd need to find a volunteer to do it.  It's not
a very rewarding job, what we have now works and it hasn't changed in
years...