Re: [patches] Proposal for hosting standalone libdfp library

[Ryan Arnold <rsa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 17:40 -0500, Ryan Arnold wrote:
> Greeting EGLIBC folks,
> 
> As many of your are aware there are political and technical issues which
> are preventing the hosting of libdfp in GLIBC proper.  EGLIBC has
> graciously allowed development to progress in an eglibc 'libc' branch as
> a GLIBC add-on.
> 
> In order for Linux distributions to accept libdfp into their package
> offerings we've been 'encouraged' to move libdfp away from being a GLIBC
> add-on an toward a stand-alone library.  This is due to philosophical
> opposition of a few people to libdfp originating from within the GNU
> libc regardless of whether it is hosted in GLIBC proper or not.
> 
> I have the machinery for a standalone libdfp almost completed.  I'm
> emailing to query the interest of the EGLIBC community in hosting the
> standalone libdfp.  What're your thoughts on this?

Hi all,

I just thought I'd check up to see if anyone had any thoughts?

Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center
Linux Toolchain Development