Re: doc: new chapter about functions

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe it would be worth renaming the module to 'strftime-gnu', for clarity? Or maybe even "strftime-gnulib", since it's not even glibc. :-) That's a reasonable request, but if you don't mind I'd rather put off renaming until we have a real need to dist

Re: doc: new chapter about functions

2007-05-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paul, > Currently it is far more oriented towards providing GNU extensions. > In fact, it adds extensions beyond what glibc provides. Thanks. I'm documenting it as below. Maybe it would be worth renaming the module to 'strftime-gnu', for clarity? Bruno *** doc/functions/strftime.texi 1 May

Re: doc: new chapter about functions

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim, Paul, I don't understand whether the 'strftime' module is useful when > someone only wants a POSIX compliant strftime() function. Does it fix known > POSIX incompatibilities on some systems, or does it only provide GNU > extensions? Currently it is

Re: doc: new chapter about functions

2007-05-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > The creation of both doc/functions/_exit.texi and doc/functions/_Exit.texi > breaks checkout on case insensitive file systems. We need to come up with an > alternate name for one of these files. Ah, right. I rename it to _Exit_C99.texi. Bruno

Re: doc: new chapter about functions

2007-05-01 Thread Eric Blake
Bruno Haible clisp.org> writes: > > Like the documentation of the header files, I'm adding a documentation of > each ISO C 99 or POSIX function to the gnulib documentation. > > + * _Exit:: > + * _exit:: The creation of both doc/functions/_exit.texi and doc/functions/_Exit.texi breaks checkou