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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-12-29 17:38:00 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-12-29 17:41:25 -0800 |
| commit | c9195a51c61926839de237368c621c82a14ac565 (patch) | |
| tree | c2abc54a763ba4dc1a5739af04a75519ba48d38b /doc/gnulib.texi | |
| parent | f7c7d9aa17d58e81230654c4f9f60327ed659e1d (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-c9195a51c61926839de237368c621c82a14ac565.tar.gz | |
doc: omit mention of version when not needed
* doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Portability and Application Code):
* doc/gnulib.texi (Brief Overview, Legacy Function Substitutes):
Don't mention particular dates or versions when not necessary, so
that the documentation won't go out of date so quickly.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/gnulib.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gnulib.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi index 2141c536b7..b492b76428 100644 --- a/doc/gnulib.texi +++ b/doc/gnulib.texi @@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ If you need this particular \thing\, you may write to @node Brief Overview @chapter Brief Overview -Gnulib is a source code library. It provides basic functionality to -programs and libraries. Currently (as of October 2006) more than 30 -packages make use of Gnulib. +Gnulib is a source code library that provides basic functionality to +programs and libraries. Many software packages make use of Gnulib +to avoid reinventing the portability wheel. Resources: @@ -3743,7 +3743,7 @@ by Gnulib. @chapter Past POSIX Function Substitutes This chapter describes which functions and function-like macros specified by -older versions of POSIX (POSIX:2001) are substituted by Gnulib, which +older versions of POSIX are substituted by Gnulib, which portability pitfalls are fixed by Gnulib, and which (known) portability problems are not worked around by Gnulib. |