Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:34:38 +0200
From: Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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Hello all,

I think it might be a good idea to move in the direction
of mingw32 (or cygnus with the -mno-cygwin). mingw32 does have egcs,
DLL,
socket and thread support (all in different stages of maturity).
It has in common with DJGPP that it lacks fork.
Porting e.g. bash to mingw32 platform would also help the
DJGPP port of bash.

What is lacking in my opinion in the mingw32 platform is the perfect
organisation of the DJGPP project. Information on it is scattered
across different sites.
No central site with all ports of unix utilities in a uniformly
organised way and no specific mailing lists (it currently drowns in
the cygwin mailing list), no such thing as Eli's FAQ.

It would be nice to have a directory gnu/mingw32 on
any simtel mirror.

regards

Teun Burgers

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