From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:26:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87r5n413sp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fx3tjt3r.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269815261 27830 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 22:27:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 29 00:27:37 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 1Nw0xF-0000n1-AQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:27:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nw0xE-0005mH-Pg for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nw0wG-00051b-6V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46420 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nw0wE-0004zG-KU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nw0wD-0008K0-Az for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nw0wC-0008JP-Gr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nw0w9-0000Gt-Hk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:26:29 +0200 Original-Received: from acces.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:26:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by acces.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:26:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acces.bordeaux.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 9 Germinal an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KLyha++aTNcNJ6SJitUN7O98KA0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:10103 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7722 Archived-At: 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. I agree that portability tricks should primarily be directed to Gnulib. Thanks, Ludo’.