Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

2022-12-29 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote on Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 02:43:44PM -0800: > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: >> At 2022-12-23T12:49:15-0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> I've been curious: how much use do you see of groff outside >>> of man pages? I use it for the slides of all my conference presentations, and

Off-Topic: Modular C library

2022-12-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Alejandro, > I'm considering writing a new C library that is designed as a hurd of > microlibraries, which can be replaced independently. Please don't post off-topic content to the Groff list. Replies just amplify the noise. Werner, can you please fill in Mailman's text which appears under ‘

Re: Modular C library

2022-12-29 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Damian, On 12/29/22 14:03, Damian McGuckin wrote: Hi, On Thu, 29 Dec 2022, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Every time I try to patch glibc, I come again to this idea: the standard C library is doomed to be a mess, because the standard mandates it. I'm considering writing a new C library that is

Re: Modular C library

2022-12-29 Thread Alexis
Damian McGuckin writes: Do not these exist? One of them is called MUSL designed as a drop-in replacement for glibc. musl is not a drop-in replacement; it doesn't aim to replicate glibc's behaviour exactly: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html More gener

Re: Modular C library

2022-12-29 Thread Damian McGuckin
Hi, On Thu, 29 Dec 2022, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Every time I try to patch glibc, I come again to this idea: the standard C library is doomed to be a mess, because the standard mandates it. I'm considering writing a new C library that is designed as a hurd of microlibraries, which can be r

Modular C library

2022-12-29 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, You mentioned something like this some time ago. And then we came back to it with the subchapter pages. Every time I try to patch glibc, I come again to this idea: the standard C library is doomed to be a mess, because the standard mandates it. I'm considering writing a new C l