standards.texi language cleanup (was: Cygwin WIN32)

2006-05-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:07:01PM CEST: Paul Eggert wrote: Would WOE32_NATIVE be a better name? Many people believe code should be neutral. FWIW, I agree. After all, POSIX_ME_HARDER was dropped, too. I removed occurrences of M$VC and *BSD from the Libtool sources,

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: [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