Re: bug#13435: Please don't kill DJGPP support...

[Stefano Lattarini]

Reference:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13435>

On 01/28/2013 02:55 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 01:16 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> On 01/14/2013 11:29 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>
>>> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, then it appear we might actually have no problems in keeping DJGPP
>>>> support.  If the new code with split info files disabled works as expected,
>>>> re-instating support for DJGPP (on modern Windows version) will just mean
>>>> adding back few simple, unproblematic lines of code.
>>>>
>>>> I will post a patch in a few days.  No need to hurry, since Automake 1.14
>>>> (which would have removed DJGPP support) is not due to appear for several
>>>> months at least.
>>>
>>> Ok, thanks!
>>
>> I've pushed my attempt to the public rewindable branch
>> 'experimental/djgpp-for-WinNT'.  Could you give it a try,
>> when you have time?
>>
> Ping?  I'd like to have confirmation of whether DJGPP support works for
> modern Windows before doing the 1.13.2 release; if that's the case, the
> "planned backward incompatibilities" section in NEWS will have to be
> update to make it clear that we only plan to remove DJGPP-on-DOS support,
> and that DGJPP-on-Windows should continue to work correctly.
> 
Ping x 2 ?

Thanks,
  Stefano