[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of libsnprintfv

[gary]

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Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: Rather than use LGPL, I use GNU GPL v2 with the following 
exception so that this library can be linked with projects that use AutoGen\'s 
LGPL libopts (which itself needs
libsnprintfv):

As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute 
this file as part of a program that also links with and uses the libopts 
library from AutoGen, you may include it under the same distribution terms used 
by the libopts library.
Package: libsnprintfv
System name: libsnprintfv
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
snprintfv is a standalone reimplementation of the C library
*printf functions.  Most importantly, it fixes the long-standing
problem with the traditional API which prevents a programmer
from writing a program (call it: bash) that reads printf-like
commands from a file (call it: script.sh) and portably using the
system printf API to do the formatting.  Traditionally, the
programmer gets to parse all those `%3$0#4$*.6x\' specifiers on her
own; snprintfv adds a *printfv(..., void *paramv[]) call set, which operates on 
an accumulated array of parameters.  Additionally, it will provide source 
compatibility with GLIBC user format specifiers very soon, and will be able to 
runtime load user format specifier plugins using libtool\'s ltdl.

Should the new *printfv calls prove popular, I would like to see
the model adopted by GLIBC and others, and have this code distributed with 
libiberty in any case.

It already exists and you can download a baseline distribution at 
http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk/dist/snprintfv-0.98h.tar.gz, though
my motivation for hosting the project at savannah is to integrate
various forks in GNU Autogen, GNU M4 and GNU Smalltalk.


Other Software Required:
GNU libtool\'s ltdl (and the other GNU auto* utilities and their
dependencies -- GNU M4 and Perl)

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