Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Matt England <address@hidden> writes:

  me> Wow.  Well, this explains things.  I was wondering my 'make' is so
  me> awry on mingw.  It follows the general rule I've found in
  me> cross-platform development is that if the developers don't use a
  me> platform, you'll find more bugs on said platform.

  me> Just to make sure: there's no developers/maintainers on the
  me> address@hidden list who actively or routinely use 'make' on
  me> mingw/msys?

Not quite what I said.  There are at least a few people who read
make-w32 and use GNU make on mingw/msys, and test and contribute patches
and fixes.  You can check the archives to find some names.  You might
also have luck on the mingw/msys mailing lists.

There are very few (currently only two) people who have checkin
privileges to the GNU make source tree.  Neither of those people use
VMS/Windows/DOS/Amiga/OS2/etc.  Everyone else contributes patches for
other ports; I examine them for obvious issues before they're checked
in, but I know little about the other platforms so other than really
obvious errors, portability issues, or formatting issues, I pretty much
just apply what people send me.

So there are definitely people who try to make sure these ports work.
But there are no GNU make maintainers that use or test GNU make on
Windows (or DOS, or VMS, or any of the other non-POSIX platforms that
GNU make supports).

Unfortunately, I really don't have any one designated maintainer for
each port.  I have a few "usual suspects" that I talk to for most of the
ports.  For Windows issues of any type, I typically send things to the
make-w32 list and hope someone responds.  Eli is one of the best there,
but he only does DOS and native Windows, not mingw/msys etc., as far as
I know.

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