Re: [Mingw-users] acm support and patch #1083586

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Michael Gerdau <mg...@te...>:

>> My project needs more acm support that there is currently in mingw.
>> There's a patch for that:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1083586&group_id=2435&atid=302435
>

I just closed that tracker item as old with explaination that patches 
are welcome, replacements are not.

> That patch apparently copies a file from the wine project and it
> contains a wine copyright. I have forgotten whether the wine
> copyright is compatible with mingw or not...
>

Our current file has this preamble:

/*author: Adrian Sandor
  written for MinGW*/

Adrian submitted a special version for MinGW.

> However the patch does not explicitly state where all the info
> comes from. There are a couple of MSDN-URLs which implies that's
> the source though.
>

And we would need that information to accept the patch.

Earnie Boyd
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