[illumos-Developer] BSD iconv (was Closed-bin accords of the OpenSolaris conference... )

[Joerg Schilling]

"Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com> wrote:

> I caught your interesting thread about getting a freely license version of iconv into OpenSolaris so I thought I'd mention:
>
> As part as FreeBSD's GSoC 2009, Gabor Kovesdan polished a new implementation of iconv under a BSD license:
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2009
>
> There's also a Perforce repository here:
> http://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/soc2009/gabor%5ficonv&HIDEDEL=NO
>
> From my understanding the code is ready to be committed to FreeBSD's base. But you can keep in touch with Gabor (CC'd) for the details.

This seems to be promising news. Before, FreeBSD was using GNU iconv and GNU 
libiconv - of course as a second class citizen. YOu even had to manually add
-I and -L flags for compilation in otder to make the code visible.


> While here, let me suggest Coverity scans and Google SoC as some great resources that the Illumos project should have in it's toolbox.

I am not sure on whether Coverity would do this for free for the Solaris 
codebase.

Jörg

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