From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 16 18:21:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEF637B404; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:21:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 7D14F9B19; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:20:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:20:52 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, i18n@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: iconv port: plea for take-over Message-ID: <20020217022052.GQ44003@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Andrey A. Chernov" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, i18n@FreeBSD.org References: <20020215232829.GA49008@nagual.pp.ru> <20020216042213.GA54552@nagual.pp.ru> <20020216161910.GU44003@squall.waterspout.com> <20020216190141.GA60826@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020216190141.GA60826@nagual.pp.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i 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 On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:01:44PM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > Symlinks not helps, not the library and includes, but all function renamed > with "g" prefix and unrenamed back with #defines Sure it helps, for runtime stuff. > API is exactly the same, standard. OK, then the only issue is whether the giconv implementation is equal or better. If it is equal or better, then I see no reason not to obsolete the old iconv package entirely.. possibly leaving it alone as a "dead" package, with only a dependency on the current giconv port. This way people can migrate to the new package gracefully. Then at some later point (perhaps in a year) the iconv port can be removed. > GNU is Russian-centric? Interesting. Never said that. I'm only saying that you can't assume that just because something works for your locale that it works as expected for other locales. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message