Re: Oct and Nov 2012

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 17/10/12 18:47, Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting me:
>>> Have you looked at the glob implementation I prototyped on my
>>> personal SF pages?  We should seriously consider having that rolled
>>> into 4.0; final implementation may need some discussion, prior to
>>> release.
>>
>> I'm not finding it at sf.net/u/keithmarshall nor
>> sf.net/users/keithmarshall.  I even looked at
>> kethmarshall.users.sf.net.
>
> Hmm.  Probably not the wisest of choices, but I'd tucked it away under
> the mingw-get snapshots, and posted tinyurl links on mingw-users; see:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/39199/focus=39250
>
> This will take you to a fairly extensive discussion, primarily between
> Eli and myself, where you will find the rationale for the change, and
> also the original link: http://tinyurl.com/cgkckca
>

Is there a patch file or could you provide one easily?  You can attach
it to the 3482704 artifact as potential implementation for your "Issue
(2)" point.

> In a follow-up thread, Eli suggested some adjustments, which we should
> probably consider before a formal release; in particular, should we
> leave the primary entry points as glob() and globfree(), or should we
> rather call them (say) __mingw_glob() and __mingw_globfree()?  I don't
> agree with Eli's rationale for such a strategy, (which I consider to
> represent a bug in GNU make), but there may be mileage for us, for other
> reasons.

I remember the conversation now, I probably even have it in my own
personal archive.

-- 
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

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