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Re: Revised gawk roadmap now available


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Revised gawk roadmap now available
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:41:45 -0400

> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:41:55 +0200
> From: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> If by MS-DOS you mean 16-bit, nobody is likely going to complain.  If 
> you mean DJGPP, however, there are still some affectioned users and they 
> may be interested.

Exactly.  There should be no reason for dropping the DJGPP support.

> Besides, the code to support DJGPP and MinGW is probably not very
> different.

It is somewhat different (DJGPP uses its own libc, which is much more
Posix-compliant than the Windows runtime used by MinGW), but based on
experience of many years, the amount of support needed by DJGPP is
infinitesimally small.



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