From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Linas Vepstas Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:05:44 -0600 Message-ID: <3ae3aa421003221305y1dfbdb41sc2c563dc0432938e@mail.gmail.com> References: <87fx3tjt3r.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> Reply-To: linasvepstas@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269288386 11000 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 20:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, Peter Brett , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 21:06:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtntF-0007iK-0c for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:06:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtntE-0003R8-61 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntnt1-0003Pk-UT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57475 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntnt0-0003Ow-O5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntnsz-0002RU-81 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com ([209.85.211.191]:46259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntnsz-0002RO-5O; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so3509507ywh.14 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:06:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4FkGh154AkdgDv6BAHv/2IIoO1XmuvRZlDiEYvstLdU=; b=RGg+U2BORKDJ4VzbTtj0sJJOxkiQKtO6s6dpRqaa0CsbqTif0ERkblf8EyTTa5il52 lbKkCbgoN04RdhiiNhzK818rtoJzwenZw4p8gCQoZIG5XXK4ZNt0WNpXraEKlvt/b8jY zjI7uE0yFCkL4bpYmvFkhaqaFYI1cWjxblH/0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DeoHKcphf5g9XuO7oRxUXO/R6G3LcfMPccAr/X03Q2ZxzrWIgN8MGEY1X9MG9Q9XUR p5uHVIGqsA8Mdgj5WCDQj33Tj1h0S1PNzeUBpOUO1uAoUHsgBSyqf2EzU5I42FYH3RnS wz6bh/nUDcpevhBlZqjlRtV247RtBdGbQLXTI= Original-Received: by 10.100.28.19 with SMTP id b19mr5202296anb.75.1269288364144; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:06:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10068 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7704 Archived-At: On 22 March 2010 14:00, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi Peter (& Neil & co), > > On Mon 22 Mar 2010 09:10, Peter Brett writes: >> >> We get people coming to the gEDA user mailing list on a regular basis >> saying, "Where can I find a version of gEDA for Windows?" and the >> Windows builds we've put out have been generally well-received. =C2=A0Si= nce >> Guile is one of our core dependencies, lack of Windows support in Guile >> would mean that we wouldn't be able to provide a Windows build at all FWIW, somehow gnucash (which uses guile) runs on windows, not sure how. My pet peeve with mingw is the lack of ready-to-go regex. This is completel= y unrelated to guile; I have another project that made the mistake of assumin= g that regex "just worked" on windows, and I've been bitched at ever since. Getting regex into mingw and having it "just work" would be excellent. --linas