"Richard W.M. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I maintain portableXDR (http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/) > which is an XDR library for Windows and Macs. As far as I'm aware it > is only used by libvirt (http://libvirt.org/), and only on platforms > which lack any XDR library (ie. Windows) or a usable XDR library (Macs > and other Unix systems). > > I'd like to know whether Gnulib developers would be interested in > taking on an XDR implementation (based on the one in glibc)?
I have no immediate use for it, but I can see how it can become handy. One concern is the copyright status. It doesn't seem to be owned by the FSF, which is normally a pre-condition for inclusion in gnulib. The request brings up the issue of what the limits of what can be in gnulib. I'm not sure it is a useful discussion... Anyway, for example, libtasn1 is used by GnuTLS, Shishi, and probably some other projects as well, and I have thought about proposing parts of it as gnulib modules. Probably the only reason I haven't done so already is because the code is quite hard to read and maintain. /Simon
