Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
>> I'm marking ftruncate as obsolete, prior to removing it altogether.
>> I am removing the few uses from coreutils, too.
>> It's been in mingw for quite a while:
>>
>>     $ cvs log mingwex/ftruncate.c
>
> Indeed. But since mingw has it but MSVC doesn't, this raises the question:
> how important is the MSVC porting platform (use Microsoft's compiler and
> include files [proprietary but downloadable at zero cost from Microsoft's
> web site], with possibly a wrapper script like 'cccl')? On one hand,
> there have been attempts to add support for this platform to libtool.
> On the other hand, this platforms lacks <dirent.h>, opendir, readdir,
> but we have not had a single request for supporting this in gnulib in
> 7 years.

Hi Bruno,

On the basis of that last clause (7 years), I'd say you've answered
your own question.