From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:20:27 +0000 Message-ID: <87d3yvlwhg.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87fx3tjt3r.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <3ae3aa421003221305y1dfbdb41sc2c563dc0432938e@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269303672 32458 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 00:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-user@gnu.org, Peter Brett , guile-devel@gnu.org To: linasvepstas@gmail.com Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 01:21:08 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 1Ntrrm-0000ed-Ee for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:21:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntrrl-0005FQ-KE for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntrrd-0005F6-FE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38446 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntrrb-0005Ev-JP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntrra-00022L-8D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:43637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntrra-000228-3u; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-182-154-126.range86-182.btcentralplus.com [86.182.154.126]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CBCE1F663D; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A9C38026; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:20:27 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <3ae3aa421003221305y1dfbdb41sc2c563dc0432938e@mail.gmail.com> (Linas Vepstas's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:05:44 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:10073 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7718 Archived-At: Linas Vepstas writes: > My pet peeve with mingw is the lack of ready-to-go regex. This is completely > unrelated to guile; I have another project that made the mistake of assuming > that regex "just worked" on windows, and I've been bitched at ever > since. Gnulib has a regex library. > Getting regex into mingw and having it "just work" would be excellent. But that won't happen, because that's not part of MinGW's mission. All MinGW is trying to do is provide a free software toolset for building native Windows programs - which at runtime will link to the standard set of DLLs that M$ provides. Those DLLs don't provide regex, so the MinGW header files don't provide regex either. Neil