Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 15:35:52, Andy Moreton a écrit : > On Wed 26 Jan 2011, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Therefore since 2001 (creation of doslfn), 8.3 name problem should not > > exist. > > > > Instead of tackling the main problem lack of 8.3 support and use the > > new api, you are stick in the 90's. > > It seems odd to me that the developers of a GNU library fight so > hard to avoid their code being portable. The gnulib manual [1] says: > > Gnulib is useful to enhance various aspects of a package: > > * Portability: With Gnulib, a package maintainer can program > against the POSIX and GNU libc APIs and nevertheless expect good > portability to platforms that don't implement POSIX. > > * Maintainability: When a package uses modules from Gnulib instead > of code written specifically for that package, the maintainer has > less code to maintain. > > It seems that manual promotes exactly the features that Eli needs. > > AndyM
8.3 limitation is really of another age, and could be lifted on dos is doslfn is fixed. DJGPP need dpmi adding a prerequist of doslfn is not so hard in order to compile (not run) emacs. Bastien
