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MSVC support in gnulib still needed? (Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module


From: Jarno Rajahalme
Subject: MSVC support in gnulib still needed? (Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:54:27 -0700

On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:04 AM, ext 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.
> 

GNU Octave has just started to use gnulib. Prior versions of Octave have also 
been portable for MSVC; I actually used it for a while one year ago. I don't 
know if the plans for Octave have changed, or whether the MSVC support in 
gnulib was factored in making the decision to move to gnulib. Hopefully John 
(CC'd) can tell more about this.

Regards,

  Jarno



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