Re: [Mingw-users] Potential patches for w32api?

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Anthony Tuininga wrote:
> I am in the process of attempting to compile PythonCOM under Mingw32. I
> have gone a long way and with a handful of patches everything compiles.
> Some of these patches are for PythonCOM itself and have been sent to the
> maintainer (and integrated) but a few of them are for the w32api that
> ships with Mingw32 as well. I am currently using 2.3 which I believe is
> the latest set of released files. From that I have a few questions:
> 
> 1) Does it matter what source the information that goes into the patch
> is taken from? Or would you rather not know? Most of the changes that I
> have acquired have come from the Wine project -- the format for the
> include files is different but its fairly easy to translate. I have also
> on occasion used Google and found references to MSDN. Any thoughts?
> 

The official cvs for the w32api lives in the winsup/w32api from 
www.cygwin.com.

> 2) Who do I send the patches to? Do I mail them to this mailing list or
> some other location?

See http://www.mingw.org/bugs.shtml

Earnie.