From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: convert regex.c, strftime.c mktime.c to standard C Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289922336 20328 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2010 15:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 16:45:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PINit-0005L4-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PINis-0005mR-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34311 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PINip-0005mJ-0O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PINin-0000hg-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PINin-0000hc-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PINil-0008Np-6x; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:45:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 15 Nov 2010 17\:01\:34 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132730 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The last two come from gnulib, but gnulib is so different now that > updating those files is not feasible, gnulib support would need to be > redone from scratch. > > It would be a good idea to update to the most recent version of > strftime.c and mktime.c. Surely this is not very hard, even if it > requires rewriting the relevant parts of Emacs from zero. The gnulib maintainer said it's not trivial, the gnulib infrastructure has changed. It might be worth doing it, but until we get a volunteer to do it... > regexp.c might be harder. Would Emacs work with the current > regex.c from gnulib, or does it lack some features added for Emacs? Don't know.