On 11/5/07, Scott Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anything that's not Windows should stay with autoconf, anything else is
> nuts.

I don't think supporting cygwin and mingw-msys  is nuts. I say this of
course as an upstream developer whose main concern is simplifying the
build process for an xml editor that targets windows and linux so I am
biased. However, considering windows moves a lot slower than Fedora
core, I think its worth the effort.

> I can tell you that for Fedora, for example, gcc is churning at an
> astounding rate. It *will* break a lot, there just isn't a lot you can do
> about it unless you drop support for Fedora (that's just an example, I don't
> know if Fedora is a supported OS here).

Perhaps you should get fedora to have its own rpm and send patched upstream?

> So I would suggest that specific people are tasked (on the basis of them
> volunteering) to deal with the ongoing maintenance of specific
> platform/compiler combos, and if nobody steps up, you cut it.

I'll test mingw and cygwin. I can't guarantee I can fix all issues
that pop up, but I can run ./configure and when it breaks try and fix
it and report my findings and fixes.

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