Re: doc update

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> According to Simon Josefsson on 11/25/2009 2:43 AM:
>> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> This doc update considers that MacOS X 10.5 has most of the *_l functions 
>>> that
>>> take a locale_t argument.
>> ...
>>> -This function is missing on all non-glibc platforms:
>>> +This function is missing on many platforms:
>>>  MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, 
>>> IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
>> 
>> That is a bit open-ended, isn't it?
>
> The "all non-glibc platforms" is what was open-ended (because it precludes
> the idea that someone else will implement it).
>
> Personally, I'm okay with "is missing on many platforms", followed by the
> list (which we can then tweak over time to list the last known buggy
> versions as other implementations start to add POSIX 2008 compliance).  So
> I think Bruno's patch was right, and there is no need to make a pass
> through just for rewording it again.

My patch didn't illustrate my point correctly: my point was that,
according to Bruno (and my checks), we do know that at least Mac OS X
10.5 implements the *_l functions, so arguable our documentation should
say that.

/Simon