Mail Archives: djgpp/2010/04/02/13:45:17
Hi,
On Apr 2, 1:10=A0am, Eli Zaretskii <e DOT DOT DOT AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
> > From: Rugxulo <rugx DOT DOT DOT AT gmail DOT com>
> > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:23:22 -0700 (PDT)
> > Bytes: 4549
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> > The Autoconf people explicitly target only POSIX, if at all possible.
>
> That's not accurate: they explicitly cater to environments such as
> Cygwin and MSYS which run on Windows. =A0And at least in the past, when
> DJGPP was actively developed, our voice was also heard.
>
> Besides, DJGPP is sufficiently Posix for that matter, anyway.
They told me that they didn't even have old Bash 2.05b (circa 2003?)
around to test. In their minds, everybody should've upgraded (which
ignores the obvious fact that it's heavily *nix-oriented and makes use
of fork / exec and other goodies that are annoying to us). While they
do use some workarounds for various targets, they want to avoid that
if at all possible. And, sadly, DJGPP is not very prestigious, so it's
not high priority. If we have bugs in our copies of Bash, we alone are
expected to fix them. However, Ralf seems very nice and cooperative,
so I can't complain. It's just a tough job for all of us. :-/
My main complaint is that so many programs out there could also
support DJGPP but don't even bother (or remove DOS support for no good
reason). It's one thing if it's too much work (e.g. rewrite the
backend), but when it's only simple things, that just irks me to no
end! The DJGPP suite is still so very useful yet so ignored.
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