Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Fwd: [Mingw-msys] libgen.h (dirname, basename) and realpath implementation

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

"Aaron W. LaFramboise"  wrote:
> Danny Smith wrote:
>
> [skip to the last three paragraphs for the punch line]
>
>
> So what I'm really asking for here is that you let me (or anyone else
> who cares) 1) support this notion of a vanilla Windows target, 2) in the
> form of a unique target triple, 3) that represents GCC without the "new"
> mingwex, or MSVC, or other Windows compilers or environments 4) in the
> official GNU sources.  If it is felt that mingwrt isn't the right place
> to actually support this vanilla Windows target, thats fine, even though
> I think it would be best to retain this capability--but please don't
> lock me out of the official GNU sources.
>

I feel that the  mingw "trunk" isn't the right place to do this. Your goals do
not fit mine, but that isn't important.  I don't think they fit most other mingw
users now.  They carry risk.  That is important,   They may also carry
possibility of long-term improvement   That is important.  A CVS branch (in
winsup and possibliy in GCC if I read your intentions correctly) might be an
answer.

Why do you think anyone would care to lock you out of official GNU sources?

> In more tangible terms, I'd like to get tentative agreement from the two
> GCC Windows maintainers that patches to implement such support would not
> necessarily be unacceptable for this reason alone.  By no means am I
> asking for 1) someone to implement this 2) preapproval 3) maintainership.
>
I really can't comment on unseen patches.  My comment on the basename and
dirname patch that Keith has submitted (after the discussion that followed) is
that I think they should be incorporated into libmingwex .  How could those
specific patches get in the way of configuring a project for mingw?.


Danny
.
>
> If you still feel this is not appropriate, I'd like to hear specific
> comments on why my reasons supporting having a vanilla Windows target
> are invalid, or less significant than some practical objection.
>
>
> Again, sorry for the verbosity and length.
>
>
> Aaron W. LaFramboise
>
>
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