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Re: doc update


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: doc update
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:11:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> writes:

> 
> My patch didn't illustrate my point correctly: my point was that,
> according to Bruno (and my checks), we do know that at least Mac OS X
> 10.5 implements the *_l functions, so arguable our documentation should
> say that.

I still think that's overkill.  Remember, the docs exist to show that there are 
known non-compliances with POSIX 2008, and what gnulib does about that.  We 
don't have to list all the bugs, just enough of a sampling that a package 
maintainer can consider using the gnulib module to work around those flaws.  In 
other words, listing known negative cases is important.

But the list of platforms that implement POSIX 2008 will slowly grow over time, 
and as it does, we don't want to have to update the docs to list new positive 
cases.  What happens when cygwin 1.7.2 (or whatever future version) implements 
locale_t and the *_l functions?  Do we have to sweep through the docs yet 
again?  So, keeping the docs in their current state, of listing only negative 
cases, seems okay to me.

-- 
Eric Blake







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