Re: Revised gawk roadmap now available

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Eli.

> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Revised gawk roadmap now available
> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:38:47 -0400
>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:17:58 -0400
> > From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Hello all. I have revised the gawk development roadmap at:
> > 
> >     http://www.skeeve.com/gawk_roadmap.html
> > 
> > If anything there REALLY bothers you, please let me know.
>
> Why are you asking for a volunteer to maintain the native Windows port
> in conjunction with the Visual Studio?

Because I suspect that many Windows developers already have it and are
used to it, and because I have this (apparently vain) hope that someone
will get sockets and two-way I/O working for native windows that way.

> Gawk builds out of the box with MinGW, and works okay when built that
> way.  MinGW produces native Win32 executables (it also produces Win64
> executables, but I have no information whether the current code base
> compiles with MinGW64).  MinGW is Free Software, it uses native Windows
> ports of GCC and Binutils.

So it sounds like MinGW and/or MSYS are the way to go.

Thanks,

Arnold