Re: obsolete modules

2008-11-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > Go ahead and declare these modules "obsolescent", but > rather than ripping out all dependencies on them, > add an option to gnulib-tool (say, --ignore-obsolescent) > to tell it to do ignore any dependency on an obsolescent module. Good idea. I'm adding a gnulib-tool command

Re: obsolete modules

2008-11-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > Go ahead and declare these modules "obsolescent", but > rather than ripping out all dependencies on them, > add an option to gnulib-tool (say, --ignore-obsolescent) > to tell it to do ignore any dependency on an obsolescent module. Good idea. For this, it's necessary to forma

Re: obsolete modules / obsolete platforms

2008-09-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Why not document "using the strdup module for the sake of replacing > strdup is now obsolete", removing the dependency when POSIX behavior is > not required ok, why not? > and calling strdup-posix just strdup? IMO it does not hurt to keep the module 'strdup' around, for pa