Re: mem*/strr*/etc... obsolete warnings

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:11:33 Bruno Haible wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > any reason for not adding a note when > > warning about obsolete stuff ? rather than updating every module that is > > marked obsolete, the gnulib tool itself could include the pointer. > > Hmm. Neither of these tw

Re: mem*/strr*/etc... obsolete warnings

2009-01-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Mike Frysinger wrote: > any reason for not adding a note when > warning about obsolete stuff ? rather than updating every module that is > marked obsolete, the gnulib tool itself could include the pointer. Hmm. Neither of these two options looks really good: A larger notice in every modules fil

Re: mem*/strr*/etc... obsolete warnings

2009-01-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 24 January 2009 10:44:22 Bruno Haible wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > What extra information would you find useful here? > > > > the simple explanation you posted in your e-mail should be in the > > documentation. and the modules file should point people to that section > > of the

Re: [Mark McLoughlin] [PATCH] gnulib/tests: allow test-getaddrinfo to pass when offline

2009-01-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Jim Meyering writes: >> Mark McLoughlin noticed that the getaddrinfo test fails >> when there's no network, and sent the patch below. >> >> This looks like a good idea. >> Though maybe we should make it skip the test (return 77) after saying why: >> >> fprintf (stde

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output

2009-01-27 Thread Eric Blake
Simon Josefsson josefsson.org> writes: > +2009-01-22 Simon Josefsson josefsson.org> > + > + * lib/version-etc.h: Add emit_bug_reporting_address. > + * lib/version-etc.c (emit_bug_reporting_address): New function. > + * modules/version-etc (Description): Reflect new features. The c

Re: [Mark McLoughlin] [PATCH] gnulib/tests: allow test-getaddrinfo to pass when offline

2009-01-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jim Meyering writes: > Hi Simon, > > Mark McLoughlin noticed that the getaddrinfo test fails > when there's no network, and sent the patch below. > > This looks like a good idea. > Though maybe we should make it skip the test (return 77) after saying why: > > fprintf (stderr, "skipping geta

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output

2009-01-27 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Simon Josefsson ha escrit: > Ah, interesting, I wasn't aware of this feature. Do I as maintainer of > projects using gnulib have to do anything special to make this usable > for translators? Nothing special, only make sure the files imported from gnulib are listed in your po/POTFILES.in. Regar