Re: Texinfo 7.0.94 on native Windows

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 01:24:32PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On mingw 5.0.3, there are no test failures any more.
> A big improvement, compared to 7.0.90 (see my earlier report at
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-08/msg00030.html>).

This is likely to the fix that Eli sent for MinGW for install-info.

> Thus, I'm arriving at the following changes, that make texinfo work with MSVC,
> like it does with mingw:

You've done a lot of work for this but it seems like a lot of changes for
a platform that isn't very important.  Is it really worth it?  Adding a lot
of new gnulib modules is a cost that is borne only for the sake of MSVC (e.g.
source code size, configure times).  Ideally we'd be removing gnulib modules
rather than adding them as bugs/incompatabilities are fixed on various
platforms.


> Note: I wouldn't push for these changes before the 7.1 release, since in
> particular the 'select' module can trigger behaviour changes. Rather, this
> is post-7.1 stuff IMO.

Agreed.  Especially as the first pretest was two months ago, and Texinfo
is now building cleanly on nearly all other relevant platforms.