Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now

[Jim Meyering]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 12:48 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Of course, if you have some precise -- and useful enough to count as a
>> reasonable porting target -- development environment in mind for which
>> this particular replacement is required, let us know.  That would serve
>> as reason enough to defer or even cancel the planned removal.
>
> That's what Bruno said, MSVC.  All functions in mingwex are not
> provided by MSVC.

Yes, I saw that.
However, given its limitations and the lack of interest we've seen
so far, it fails to qualify as "reasonable".

On the other hand, if you tell us that you have hundreds
of patches that make gnulib work on MSVC, and have been
waiting for the right time to post them... ;-)