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Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it,
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now |
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Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:49:49 +0200 |
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.
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, John W. Eaton, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/09
- Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, John W. Eaton, 2010/04/27
- Re: <dirent.h> on msvc, Bruno Haible, 2010/04/27
- Re: <dirent.h> on msvc, John W. Eaton, 2010/04/27
Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now,
Jim Meyering <=
MSVC support in gnulib still needed? (Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now), Jarno Rajahalme, 2010/04/09
Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/04/09