Library coordination

[Sander van der Wal <svdwal@xs4all.nl>]

Just to let all of you know the state of affairs with the 
library coordination: I am compiling a list of proposed
modules. I intent to put the following info about the
modules in the list:

  - the module name.
  - a short description about the purpose of the module
  - whether the implementation of the module is system-dependant 
    or not. 
  - who is writing an system-independent implementation.
or
  - who is writing the interface definition of a system-dependant
    module.
  - the state of the implentation (not-yet, alpha, beta, finished)
  - anything else you think should also be here.

I don't think DEFINITION's should be in the list because it 
would become very big very soon. This is better done in a separate 
thread discussing the module.

The list will be posted every fortnigth to the mailing list.

Currently we have the following people that volunteered writing
modules:

> From: Mike Griebling <grieblm@trt.allied.com>
> [knip]
> I'll volunteer to implement the following ISO modules:
>
>	LowReal, LowLong  (already partially covered by Math, MathL)
>	RealStr, LongStr  
>	RealConv, LongConv
>	RealMath, LongMath (are these modules really necessary given Math(L)?)
>	ComplexMath, LongComplexMath
>
> I suggest that the RealMath & LongMath simply be stubs which call the
> appropriate Math or MathL routines.
>
> I'll also volunteer for the following:
>
>	WholeConv  -- probably will be called IntConv
>	WholeStr   -- probably will be called IntStr
>
> If there are any additional descriptions which can be added, please add
> them to the above definitions and the real definition modules I've 
> volunteered for.


> From: acken@informatik.uni-kl.de
> [knip] 
> I'll volunteer for the ISO Strings and CharClass modules.  

I volunteer to write the definition for the Files and Locators(Filenames)
modules and the implementations for Unix (and RISC OS of course).


Merry christmas everobody.

-- 
Sander

These systems people never changed. They could work miracles, but at the
same time they claimed perfectly reasonable requests were impossible.