Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, John. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, John Sonnenschein wrote: Currently, there is no possible way to build an opensolaris distribution without including the closed-source libc_i18n.a. What this means is that a traditional

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Burlison
Stephen Lau wrote: here's my vote for a project name: Project Emancipation Surely Project Enduring Freedom would be more appropriate? ;-) -- Alan Burlison -- ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-03 Thread Ian Collins
Alan Hargreaves wrote: Do we have a test suite for what we have in libc_i18n.a? If so, we should make that available or at leat have someone who can run it against anything the project produces. As the missing functions don't appear to be documented (correct me if I'm wrong) someone who has

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-01 Thread John Sonnenschein
Currently, there is no possible way to build an opensolaris distribution without including the closed-source libc_i18n.a. What this means is that a traditional distribution is entirely out of the question. This is entirely unacceptable for a project which wishes to call itself Open Source. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-01 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Friday 02 February 2007 01:07, John Sonnenschein wrote: Currently, there is no possible way to build an opensolaris distribution without including the closed-source libc_i18n.a. What this means is that a traditional distribution is entirely out of the question. This is entirely unacceptable

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 22:07 -0800, John Sonnenschein wrote: Currently, there is no possible way to build an opensolaris distribution without including the closed-source libc_i18n.a. What this means is that a traditional distribution is entirely out of the question. This is entirely

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Lau
+1 here's my vote for a project name: Project Emancipation cheers, steve On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:07:28PM -0800, John Sonnenschein wrote: Currently, there is no possible way to build an opensolaris distribution without including the closed-source libc_i18n.a. What this means is that a

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-01 Thread John Sonnenschein
On 1-Feb-07, at 10:26 PM, Stephen Lau wrote: here's my vote for a project name: Project Emancipation fantastic! :) I'll take it ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org