From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: 2.04 CVS Build plan
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:43:00 +0200
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On Tuesday 26 November 2002 07:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > How about if we put them in libglibc.a (a new library), make sure
> > > people recognize linking to it has different license terms (not
> > > automatically linked), but it would provide c99 support?
> > >
> > > Just an idea, but a big build change...
> >
> > I don't think that would be appropriate for djgpp.
>
> I agree with DJ.  Having many useful functions in a separate LGPL'ed
> library will most probably create a mess whereby user programs use those
> functions and then fall under the GNU license without any reasonable
> alternative for the user to avoid that.
>
> Assuming the work on math functions is done (by K.B. Williams), and
> putting the wide character support aside for a while, could someone
> please prepare a list of what else is missing?  Perhaps that list is not
> too long, in which case we could have a resonably short plan to write
> those functions/macros.

Mark worked to write wide character support for DJGPP about 4 years ago
But as far as I understood from "mailing list archeology" changes were 
postponed that time due to comming release of DJGPP v2.02. Maybe it's time to 
dig out old wide character related sources ...

Andris