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.
