Re: Revised gawk roadmap now available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:30:32 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > 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.

Sockets work in MinGW programs as well.  It's just a matter of a
motivated individual who'd do the footwork.

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

MinGW.  MSYS builds are only needed for running Gawk as part of
building some other package.