Re: [DotGNU]Reminder - Weekly DotGNU Meeting

[Rhys Weatherley]

Gopal V wrote:

> *) Supporting Win32 directly
>     The users of Portable.Net have long been clamouring about
> win32 support ... Scandium (IRC nick) has suggested that we use
> the NullSoft's Opensource Installer to do the packaging .. So
> now the question is ... how long will it take for pnet to be
> compilable with Mingw32 ... (Add to target for 0.5.0)

A lot of work will be needed in "support", as it currently
assumes a Posix-ish libc, which Cygwin provides but not Mingw32.

Then we need to track down every use of a filename in the code
and check it.  I'm pretty sure that there are a few places
where I have assumed that absolute pathnames begin with '/',
which is true with Cygwin, but not Mingw32.

I'll play with it a bit to see how hard it will be, and then
decide if 0.5.0 is meetable or not.

Cheers,

Rhys.