Re: [Bug-wget] Portability to platforms without C99

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012 schrieb Hrvoje Niksic:
>> Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Let's be realistic, is there any platform/system (with more than 3
>> > users) where C99 is a problem?
>> >
>> > Visual Studio is not a problem as there are other ways to build wget on
>> > Windows that don't stick us to something more than 20 years old.
>> 
>> If Wget is no longer concerned with portability to older compilers and
>> architectures, there should be an announcement so that the decision can
>> at least be discussed before it's implemented.
>> 
>
> That is always a good idea.
>
> Guiseppe could also just state, that the upcoming 2.x version needs c99 and / 
> or POSIX200x. Backports to C89 1.x version could easily be made by interested 
> persons. Nobody would really be hurt by such a decision.

unfortunately it seems that we can't blindly use C99, this can change
for 2.0 though.  There are many users on Windows, even if we don't
support Visual Studio we still need to support MINGW[1], keeping in mind
that some portability issues are fixed by gnulib though.

Giuseppe


1) http://www.mingw.org/wiki/C99