James Michael DuPont wrote: > > Well, funny enought, I found out that FSF does not own the libiconv, > but the gettext. It is quite confusing. > > Bruno Haible has THREE! different CVS controls of the sources, > two on sourceforge (libiconv,clisp), one on savannah. And none on the > GNU CVS. >
Ok, so we have too many CVS versions, hopefully all kept in sync. BTW, there are two for mingw-runtime and w32api. > > > > > > > Then we need to have a link on each of these projects as to who is > > > doing what. > > > > > > Believe me, I dont want to spend any more time than needed on this > > at > > > all! > > > > > > Maybe a WEBRING would be best, at least you all have each others > > names, > > > now please start talking, agree on a standard disclaimer about > > where to > > > go to get the newest version, who is doing what. > > > > The fight that needs fought is the convincing of each porter to use > > the > > subversions CVS. > Ok, this is where it gets more confusing. > > Gettext is a GNU package, fsf assigned copyright. > But the libintl that contains some of the functions is part of the libc > and is not assigned. > http://www.gnu.org/directory/Localization/gettext.html > > Iconv is and is NOT GNU package, but not assigned. > http://www.gnu.org/directory/Localization/libiconv.html > It is also not in subversions. > > !!! AND IT IS IN A NEW CVS REPOSITORY !! > So it is maintained in THREE DIFFERENT CVSes!! > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/clisp > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/clisp/libiconv/?cvsroot=clisp > > George Greve talke about is here: > http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-30.en.html > "The GNU libiconv [13] is the character set conversion library of the > GNU Project; through the iconv() function it offers programs the > functionality of convert documents between different character sets." > > I think this is very very very confusing for anyone, > no wonder why this is so painful! > Yea, me too. I'll respond to this more later. Earnie. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
