Re: Gauge interest in an XDR implementation

2008-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, Richard, all, * Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:03:06AM CET: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > The request brings up the issue of what the limits of what can be in > > gnulib. I'm not sure it is a useful discussion... > > My opinion: If it's "common" in the sense that

Re: Gauge interest in an XDR implementation

2008-11-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyway, for example, >> libtasn1 is used by GnuTLS, Shishi, and probably some other projects as >> well, and I have thought about proposing parts of it as gnulib modules. >> Probably the only reason I haven't done so already is because the code >> is qui

Re: Gauge interest in an XDR implementation

2008-11-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I'd like to know whether Gnulib developers would be interested in > > taking on an XDR implementation (based on the one in glibc)? Yes, this definitely can have its place in gnulib, because it is glibc functionality that is not present on all other systems. You can l

Re: Gauge interest in an XDR implementation

2008-10-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Richard W.M. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I maintain portableXDR (http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/) > which is an XDR library for Windows and Macs. As far as I'm aware it > is only used by libvirt (http://libvirt.org/), and only on platforms > which lack any XDR library (ie. Win

Gauge interest in an XDR implementation

2008-10-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I maintain portableXDR (http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/) which is an XDR library for Windows and Macs. As far as I'm aware it is only used by libvirt (http://libvirt.org/), and only on platforms which lack any XDR library (ie. Windows) or a usable XDR library (Macs and other Unix systems