Re: MINT

[Bruno Haible]

Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > I have more patches to gnulib for MINT. Shall I just file them as bugs ?
> > 
> > It depends how serious MINT as a platform is. What is MINT at all? Why does
> > it lack basic functions like mbrtowc, standardized in ANSI C Amendment 1?
> 
> MINT runs on the Atari ST.

Oh, you mean MiNT? I used this in 1990-1992. Definitely a museum system by now.

> You can google FreeMiNT. 

http://freemint.de/ - last update of the software 5.7 years ago...

> > Is this platform in active development? If so, it might be easier to add the
> > missing functions or fix the bugs that might be uncovered by gnulib's tests.
> 
> There's only a handful of developers with minimal time.

In this situation, you cannot expect commitment from gnulib. You can, of
course, report problems that you find. But I will give priority to issues
found with recent Unix version and mingw. And I have ca. 25 such issues
pending.

Problems that you should report in any case, however, are problems in the
module description: missing source files, missing dependencies, or errors
signalled by 'autoconf' while creating the configure file.

Bruno