l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > I was under the impression that Windows users would often prefer > software that requires “only” MinGW, as opposed to the more heavyweight > Cygwin. From that point of view a MinGW port seems to be useful, > especially if Guile does part of the OS abstraction job that Cygwin > does.
Yes, agreed now. It was wrong of me to suggest that MinGW support might not be necessary... > I agree that portability tricks should primarily be directed to Gnulib. Thanks, Neil