Hi Bruno,
On 5/2/24 11:15 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> doc: Add appendix about Gnulib history.
> * doc/gnulib-history.texi: New file.
> * doc/gnulib.texi: Include it.
Interesting section, thanks.
> Providing a substitute / override for a system function was relatively easy.
> Providing a substitute / override for a system header file was significantly
> harder, but was done successively:
> for @code{stdint.h} in 2004,
I didn't realize the header replacements started this early. I'm a big
fan of them.
Maybe intprops.h and the stdckdint.h replacement are worth a mention
too. The macros for compilers who don't support GCC's builtins are
really clever. They don't look like they were too much fun to write
though. :)
> The @samp{gnulib-tool} rewrite in Python, that was started by Dmitry Selyutin
> in 2012 but lay unfinished for many years, was completed by Collin Funk and
> Bruno Haible in 2024.
Thanks for the mention. :)
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