Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] [PATCH] Fix character encoding aliases for OS/2

[Bruno Haible]

Hi KO Myung-Hun,

> Serenity Systems and Mensys BV are still distributing eComstation, which
> is successor of OS/2, commercially. See http://www.ecomstation.com
> 
> And refer to Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EComStation>.

And if I go to their forum
  <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eComStation/messages?o=1>
I get the impression that's a community about the size of the Haiku
community - less than 10 people actively working on it.

I have finite time, and it is more important for me to fix i18n problems on
Mac OS X (which has millions of users) or support Windows 7 symbolic links
in gnulib.

> If it is OS/2 maintainer, I willing to do it.

My problem with you as OS/2 maintainer is that for you, OS/2 is something
different than what it used to be. The OS you are talking about is a
shipment from Serenity, not from IBM. The libc you are talking about is
from netlabs.org, not EMX. I have no guarantee that what you submit would
work on the real OS/2 with the real EMX, for those users who have this
still around.

And I had a libiconv for DJGPP "maintainer" who sent me updates from 2001
to 2007. Now, his parts are unmaintained.

> Currently, kLIBC is a successor of EMX, and actively maintained. See
> http://svn.netlabs.org/libc
> 
> Is it ok to send the patches for kLIBC ?

You can try, but you have no guarantee that any of the gnulib maintainers
finds it worth spending time on.

Bruno