OpenEuphoria

Re: when will the mingw be added to the official release?

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.d?> Jan 11, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote:

> oyster wrote:
> > 
> > I found that Konstantinos Tampouris had make this possible in 2006. One year
> > has passed, but that has not been merged into the official release. Is there
> > any reason?
> 
> I think because no one stepped up and merged the code into the official
> source.  It's going to require someone willing and interested enough to 
> do this.  It looks like Rob originally said he expected to do this, but
> it obviously hasn't happened.  He said last month:
> 
> > Someone who cares about MinGW, and can test it,
> > should merge this into the official SourceForge 
> > source for the Translator.
> 
> And a while before that, he explained what he thought his future role
> would likely be with respect to euphoria (my pet theory is that he
> got a job :) :
> 
> > If I add those things myself, I'll probably be expected to maintain
> > them as well. ...I'll eventually have plenty to do just to ensure
> > the quality and integrity of the overall package.
> 
> The code base has changed a bit since then, so there's probably more work
> involved than would have been originally.  I'm not really interested in 
> adding mingw--OpenWatcom works well for me--though I think it would be
> a worthy addition.

Maybe you can answer the following question, Matt. However, it's mainly
directed to "oyster":
What would be the advantage of using MinGW -- compared to BCC and Watcom,
which are already supported on Windows?

Regards,
   Juergen