Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

[Linas Vepstas]

On 22 March 2010 14:00, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Peter (& Neil & co),
>
> On Mon 22 Mar 2010 09:10, Peter Brett <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> We get people coming to the gEDA user mailing list on a regular basis
>> saying, "Where can I find a version of gEDA for Windows?" and the
>> Windows builds we've put out have been generally well-received.  Since
>> Guile is one of our core dependencies, lack of Windows support in Guile
>> would mean that we wouldn't be able to provide a Windows build at all

FWIW, somehow gnucash (which uses guile) runs on windows, not sure how.

My pet peeve with mingw is the lack of ready-to-go regex. This is completely
unrelated to guile; I have another project that made the mistake of assuming
that regex "just worked" on windows, and I've been bitched at ever since.
Getting regex into mingw and having it "just work" would be excellent.

--linas