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> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:18:38 -0500
> From: Joe Wright <joewwright AT comcast DOT net>
> 
> I can implement Harbour under DJGPP rather than MinGW for example. 
> Were you me, which would you choose? Why?

Having Harbour support a DJGPP build could be a good idea regardless
of whether MinGW is supported, because it is much easier to install a
fully functional DJGPP development environment than it is to create a
fully functional MinGW development environment.

As to which one of DJGPP or MinGW should be chosen as the main or only
build on Microsoft platforms, that depends on 2 factors: (1) what is
the OS most users use it, and (2) whether support for Windows features
such as drag-n-drop, clipboard, and native languages is important.  If
both of these two factors lean towards Windows 2000 and XP (as opposed
to DOS and Windows 9X), then MinGW is probably a better bet.