Re: version-etc vs. GPLv3

2007-07-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Idea 2: Enhance the version-etc-fsf module to also provide extern const > char version_etc_license[], with the GPLv3+ string ready to translate, > alongside its current version_etc_copyright. Then in version_etc_va, > instead of hard-coding the license strin

GNU M4 1.4.10 released

2007-07-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The GNU M4 Team is pleased to announce the release of GNU M4 1.4.10. GNU `m4' is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional par

version-etc vs. GPLv3

2007-07-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two ideas of how to improve version-etc to work with either GPL version, and want some feedback before I start spending time on the wrong implementation. Both ideas have what I perceive as a benefit that programs using the version-etc module wi

Re: gplv3 files and updates

2007-07-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > I haven't heard specifically about anything besides glibc and gnutls > staying at v2. As mentioned in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-07/msg00077.html, libintl and libiconv will also stay under LGPLv2+ for some time. Brett Smith explained to me that essentia

regex - sizeof datatype and stupid comments

2007-07-09 Thread Jerker Bäck
Quoting regex.h from recent CVS: #ifdef _REGEX_LARGE_OFFSETS ... typedef ssize_t regoff_t; typedef size_t __re_idx_t; typedef size_t __re_size_t; typedef size_t __re_long_size_t; #else typedef int regoff_t; typedef int __re_idx_t; typedef unsigned int __re_size_t; typedef unsigned long int __re_