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Re: Should glibc stand for "GNU Core Library?"
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 19:01:24 +0530
- Subject: Re: Should glibc stand for "GNU Core Library?"
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On Saturday 26 November 2016 03:04 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Every time I speak publicly about glibc I have to explain
> that it's not just an ISO C library, we have BSD APIs, GNU APIs,
> POSIX APIs, networking APIs, identity management APIs, OS APIs
> (syscall wrappers), etc.
>
> Does "The GNU C Library" encompass the whole of the project?
>
> Just like GCC went from "The GNU C Compiler" to "The GNU Compiler
> Collection"... should glibc move from "The GNU C Library" to
> something like "The GNU Core Libraries" since the project provides
> key core libraries that provide much more than just ISO C.
Seems reasonable, what's the process to change it other than maybe
adding it in NEWS?
Siddhesh