glib2.0 2.64.6-1 (TEST)
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Jul 26 15:56:35 GMT 2023
On 26/07/2023 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 3 15:49, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 02/07/2023 15:30, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>
>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> * libglib2.0_0-2.64.6-1
>>> * libglib2.0-devel-2.64.6-1
>>> * libglib2.0-doc-2.64.6-1
>>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> There are many test-suite failures, however, as far as I can tell, they
>>> are not regressions, so this should work as well as it ever did.
>>
>> At least some of these test failures are due to bugs or shortcomings in the
>> Cygwin DLL. In an ideal world, I'd have the time and motivation to
>> investigate them all, but here's a brief summary of the few I looked into
>> ...
>>
>> gdatetime: The _NL_CTYPE_OUTDIGITx_MB constants for nl_langinfo aren't
>> defined (possibly because we don't have the required information, e.g. to
>> produce Persian (as opposed to Arabic) digit characters in the fa_IR.utf-8
>> locale)
>
> Uhm... we actually have this information. Only, unfortunately I screwed
> up the names:
>
> _NL_CTYPE_OUTDIGITSx_MB
>
> instead of
>
> _NL_CTYPE_OUTDIGITx_MB
>
> D'oh.
>
> Do you think we need the wrong names for backward compat? Theoretically
> they should never have been used...
A brief web search only finds the wrong names in the cygwin source code,
so yeah, I'd say just fix it.
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