From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: gettext port
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:58:38 +0200
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> I've forwarded that last message to him; I'll let the list know what
> he has to say.

He says he would not consider support important, since very few
systems lack support for dynamic loading (which is true).  But he
will consider patches for inclusion in libiconv.  So I'll look into
making such changes.  Since libiconv is 95% data and 5% code, this
could provide substantial savings.

That aside, could we consider getting some sort of extended dynamic
loading as part of DJGPP (some implementation of dlopen() perhaps
- DXE just isn't good enough for general use)?  I've been using a
personal build of DLX for some time; I've extended it with
compression (using LZO) and C++ support (so that exceptions work in
a DLX).  I'd want to release this under the LGPL, but I've been
unable to get permission from either the original author of DLX or
Markus Oberhumer (lzo is GPL-licensed, which I think is too
restrictive for a library - I'd want a LGPL licensed version of a
single LZO algorithm to be included in DLX).