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Re: [groff] Loss of MSVC support


From: John Gardner
Subject: Re: [groff] Loss of MSVC support
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:45:39 +1100

> That was last updated 5 years ago, and most of the activity ended 7 years
ago

I know. The author's recent activity <https://github.com/bmatzelle>
suggests lack of time and/or interest, but according to a recent post
<https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/issues/250>, the project is still
maintained.

Perhaps you should offer him a helping hand with fixing those shortcomings
then? ;-)


> Most of the tools there are available from GnuWin32, from MinGW, or
> from ezwinports, the latter two are more up to date.

I use Chocolatey <https://chocolatey.org/> for installing and managing
packages on Windows machines, mainly for setting up CI. Never used
ezwinports, I'll look into it.


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 04:21, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: John Gardner <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:18:15 +1100
> > Cc: groff <address@hidden>
> >
> > I admit I don't have much to contribute to this discussion, but I haven't
> > seen GOW mentioned yet, so I figure I'd bring it up for those who'd be
> > interested:
> >
> > https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
>
> That was last updated 5 years ago, and most of the activity ended 7
> years ago.  Also, I see MSYS DLLs there, which tells me some of the
> programs are MSYS ports, not native Windows ports (MSYS is a fork of
> Cygwin which I use only to build native Windows programs using MinGW
> tools).
>
> > GOW stands for "GNU on Windows"; it's a lightweight alternative to
> Cygwin.
> > Makes developing on Windows so much more bearable...
>
> Most of the tools there are available from GnuWin32, from MinGW, or
> from ezwinports, the latter two are more up to date.
>


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