Paul, Thanks for your comments. I believe that someone could devote more time than I have and do a lot of good things to improve the WIN32 story for GNU make. I have certainly enjoyed working on the tool. I hope someone else will seize the challenge. I am glad to facilitate the transition as well. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to talk about it or gain historical knowledge. I am happy to do this. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Automake List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:18 PM Subject: Need help with Windows port for GNU make (+ DOS pretesters) > Hi all. > > Recently Rob Tulloh has notified me that he's no longer able to give the > maintenance of the Windows port of GNU make the attention he would like, > due to other demands on his time. I would like to publicly thank him > for his many years of dedication to and support of that effort, and I > hope his workload eases in the future so he can spare us some more > cycles! :) > > This leaves us without anyone (AFAIK) on the alpha-test or pre-test > lists who is actively supporting or testing the Windows ports. > Unfortunately (? ;), I don't have a Windows system that I can even test > the build on, much less the expertise to provide code fixes. Indeed, we > had some issues with the current 3.79 release on Windows :(. > > So, if you are interested in helping pretest GNU make on Windows, and/or > if you are willing and able to help answer Windows-specific problems (a > good number of problems I see are related to Windows shells, etc. and I > just don't understand the issues well enough to provide solutions), > and/or if you would like to consider Windows-specific enhancements, > please let me know. > > Thanks in advance. > > BTW, while Eli Zaretskii is still providing excellent support for the > DOS port of GNU make, it would be great if we had a few more pretesters > for this port, as well. Let me know if you'd like to become a pretester > for GNU make. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: > http://www.gnu.org http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist >
