Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW is, as usual, lacking current support.

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

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi "J",
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, J Decker wrote:
>
>> If support for this could be added, say, 3 months ago, that would be
>> just dandy.... but sometime within the next 3 years would be alright
>> too... heck vista's only been out since November 8, 2006.
>
> Sarcasm and multiple postings don't get features added. Patches and public
> documentation on MSDN get features added.
>

And can cause your account to be moderated.

> Remember we're all volunteers here, nobody gets paid to add
> UpdateLayeredWindowIndirect() or anything else to the MinGW headers, as
> far as I know.
>

And remember that "we" includes *you*.  Please refer to 
http://www.mingw.org/Reporting_Bugs and 
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/SubmitPatches for details on how to help.

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