From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 9 8:51:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from sdns.kv.ukrtel.net (sdns.kv.ukrtel.net [195.5.27.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9DC37B405; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vega.vega.com (195.5.51.243 [195.5.51.243]) by sdns.kv.ukrtel.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 22TS0P91; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:52:54 +0300 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g39FpO460367; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:51:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3CB30E4E.BCC5FFE4@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:52:46 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Nedotsukov Cc: Boris Popov , freebsd-ports , ache Subject: Re: BSDL iconv take-over References: <3CB30864.5060702@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > > Thanks a lot Boris and everyone who responded. > At the moment I still looking for deadloop reports. My personal code > check finished with the negative result. All loops in library core seems > to be definite. The only possible deadloop case I can imagine (but > inside client software) might be provoked by incorrect iconv() call > return value. Hopefuly patch for this issue already present in ports tree. > Next. I added iso8859-16 to the iconv-extra as it was supposed by > Konstantin other missed charsets will be available on demand till the > moment I will have nothing to do but to add them. Nice to hear that the progress goes on. I would also propose to merge all iconv-xxx packages into one iconv package, because such separation actually makes very little sense. -Maxim > Thakns, > -- Alexander > > Boris Popov wrote: > > >On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > >>> I would like to take over BSDL iconv project to let it long live. At > >>> > >[skip] > > > >>Nice idea, I like it. The only thing I would add into your list is > >>making iconv build system more /usr/src-friendly, so that it is easier > >>to import it into base system when the time comes. Particularly this > >>includes replacing all perl scripts with awk ones and making build > >>systmem more sane. If my memory serves some 1.5 years ago Boris Popov > >> did some initial work on this, so you might contact > >>him for details. > >> > > > > Correct. Probably new .awk scripts are still on my disk. I'll also > >try to find the whole iconv import thread and forward it to Alex. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message