From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:34:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpe698ao.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5n413sp.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:26:14 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I was under the impression that Windows users would often prefer
> software that requires “only” MinGW, as opposed to the more heavyweight
> Cygwin. From that point of view a MinGW port seems to be useful,
> especially if Guile does part of the OS abstraction job that Cygwin
> does.
Yes, agreed now. It was wrong of me to suggest that MinGW support might
not be necessary...
> I agree that portability tricks should primarily be directed to Gnulib.
Thanks,
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 20:51 Reconsideration of MinGW work Neil Jerram
2010-03-21 21:36 ` Grant Rettke
2010-03-22 1:28 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-22 20:10 ` Andy Wingo
2010-03-22 23:38 ` Greg Troxel
2010-03-23 0:04 ` Neil Jerram
2010-03-23 6:59 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-23 8:50 ` Andy Wingo
2010-03-28 22:32 ` guile on lemote (was Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work) Ken Raeburn
2010-03-29 21:37 ` guile on lemote Neil Jerram
2010-03-22 8:10 ` Reconsideration of MinGW work Peter Brett
2010-03-22 20:00 ` Andy Wingo
2010-03-22 20:05 ` Linas Vepstas
2010-03-23 0:20 ` Neil Jerram
2010-03-23 0:13 ` Neil Jerram
2010-03-28 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-03-29 20:34 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
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2010-03-21 22:45 carlo.bramix
2010-03-23 0:35 ` Reconsideration " Neil Jerram
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