Re: standards.texi language cleanup

2006-05-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +(for example free BSD variants), and it is nice to support other Why not mention NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD by name? There are other free BSD variants too, which are less popular, and it doesn't make sense to spend much time on them IMHO.

Re: standards.texi language cleanup (was: Cygwin WIN32)

2006-05-19 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Ralf, * doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'. Before I bother rms with this, can you please explain to me the objection to *BSD? I'd never heard that before. NetBSD and OpenBSD don't like being

Re: standards.texi language cleanup

2006-05-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:19:41PM CEST: * doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'. Before I bother rms with this, can you please explain to me the objection to *BSD?

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: standards.texi language cleanup (was: Cygwin WIN32)

2006-05-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: * doc/standards.texi (System Portability): Spell out `free BSD variants', instead of using the term `*BSD'. Before I bother rms with this, can you please explain to me the objection to *BSD? I'd never heard that before. NetBSD and OpenBSD don't

Re: standards.texi language cleanup

2006-05-19 Thread Karl Berry
I thought this was more commonly known Not by me. I'm unsure if it's worth bothering. As always, I'd rather not occupy rms' time if we can avoid it. In the absence of any clamor to make this tiny change in the GNU standards.texi, I'd rather skip it. Thanks, karl