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Looking at cygwin glib source package, i see a lot of downstream patches
applied to glib over the years (there are no dates, but the versions range =
from
2.34.3 to 2.50 - that might be as early as 2012 and as late as 2017) to mak=
e it
work correctly on cygwin.

Why are these not upstream (considering the fact that glib does have some
cygwin-specific code - clearly it's not because glib doesn't *want* cygwin
compatibility)?

Alternatively, since some of these patches *remove* cygwin-specific code fr=
om
glib (as, apparently, it was aimed at old versions of cygwin), why not ask =
glib
maintainers to remove cygwin support completely (which might simplify the
porting process, since cygwin glib maintainers won't have to guess which pa=
rts
of cygwin-specific code in glib are in working order, and which are not)? A=
lso,
since cygwin masquerades as a linux-flavoured POSIX platform, a more correct
approach for glib might be to perform appropriate configure-time checks and
then use their results to decide which code to compile, instead of blindly
trusting that a particular piece of code will work on
bsd/linux/cygwin/whatever. That would remove the need for some of those pat=
ches.



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