[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.6

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.6

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers,
Hi everyone else,


I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.6.

This is just an update to the latest fixes from mainline.  Nothing
new in terms of the new locale support.

=======================================================================

For those building Cygwin from source, the new code is only available
in the topic/locales branch yet.

=======================================================================

The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well
as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per
POSIX-1.2008.

So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now
create new locales ("newlocale") and set it as locale for the current
thread ("uselocale") or use it directly with one of the new functions
taking a locale_t as parameter (i.e. isalpha_l).

The full list of new interfaces is:

  newlocale, freelocale, duplocale, uselocale

  isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isascii_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l,
  isgraph_l, islower_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isspace_l, isupper_l,
  iswalnum_l, iswalpha_l, iswblank_l, iswcntrl_l, iswctype_l,
  iswdigit_l, iswgraph_l, iswlower_l, iswprint_l, iswpunct_l,
  iswspace_l, iswupper_l, iswxdigit_l, isxdigit_l
  
  toascii_l, tolower_l, toupper_l, towctrans_l, towlower_l, towupper_l,
  wctrans_l, wctype_l

  strcasecmp_l, strcoll_l, strncasecmp_l, strxfrm_l

  wcscasecmp_l, wcscoll_l, wcstrncasecmp_l, wcstrxfrm_l

  strfmon_l, strftime_l

=======================================================================

Since this is brand-new code, this code *will* have bugs.

It would be very helpful if interested developers and Cygwin package
maintainers could give this new stuff some good testing.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.6

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-08-05 05:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well
> as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per
> POSIX-1.2008.
>
> So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now
> create new locales ("newlocale") and set it as locale for the current
> thread ("uselocale") or use it directly with one of the new functions
> taking a locale_t as parameter (i.e. isalpha_l).
>
> The full list of new interfaces is:

Trying to build scribus, strtod_l is notably missing from this list.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.6

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Aug  7 23:47, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-08-05 05:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well
> > as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per
> > POSIX-1.2008.
> > 
> > So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now
> > create new locales ("newlocale") and set it as locale for the current
> > thread ("uselocale") or use it directly with one of the new functions
> > taking a locale_t as parameter (i.e. isalpha_l).
> > 
> > The full list of new interfaces is:
> 
> Trying to build scribus, strtod_l is notably missing from this list.

strtod_l is not POSIX.  I only implemented the set of functions required
by POSIX-1.2008, no Linux and no FreeBSD extensions (the latter being a
can of worms).  If scribus requires strtod_l as soon as other *_l
functions are implemented, it's not POSIX-compliant.

Having said that, we can certainly add Linux/FreeBSD extensions over
time but for the 2.6.0 release I'd like to start with the set of
POSIX-mandated functions first.


Thanks,
Corinna

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