l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I think GNU users, especially on non-GNU platforms (proprietary Unices,
> etc.), have come to know what Gnulib is, and to appreciate it
> (hopefully), which is why I thought it would make sense to mention it.

Perhaps it should go in a new section of the NEWS, with title
something like `News about how Guile itself is developed'.  Then we
might also mention using Git, libunistring etc.  But there's a risk
we'd just end up duplicated information in README and HACKING, I
think.

>> It seems we're aiming towards saying:
>>
>> ** Guile now runs correctly on more platforms.  Since the 1.8.x
>>    series, support for the following platforms has been added: A, B,
>>    C.
>>
>> But (1) I'm not sure we have precise information to hand on what A, B
>> and C are;
>
> Portability work is endless, we just can't provide this information.

Agreed.

    Neil


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