Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:01:43AM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
         Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems.
     
     As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable
     GNU/Unix-ish environment.  

I understood that too, and it is certainly the impression that the Mingw 
website gives.  Unfortunately it is not the case.  Whenever I have spoken
to the developers, they have a mantra "Don't read any specifications except
Microsoft ones".

     These days (years), mktemp should surely be
     part of that.  Any shell script that wants to create temporary files
     safely should be using it, after all.
     
     As you can tell, I am not enthusiastic about complicating about our
     sources with emulating something that is commonly available everywhere
     but Windows.

Presumably you have checked to see if Gnulib can provide such an emulation?

J'

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