[Ns-developers] Ns-3.2 Daily Bug Status for Monday, September8, 2008

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2008/9/9 Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org>

>
>  I see little point in spreading our current resources on two win32
>>>> platforms.
>>>>
>>> I agree.  I've already suggested bailing on MinGW ...
>>>
>>
>> So, let's do this. If gustavo wants to spend time on it, he is more than
>> welcome but it seems more sensible for us to focus on cygwin.
>>
>>
> I agree.  If someone would like to volunteer to maintain MinGW, please let
> us know.  For that matter, if anyone would like to be a Cygwin maintainer,
> we could use the help there too.
>

Hi.

Yes, I am aware we had agree cygwin would be supported and not mingw.
However I tend to like mingw environment better because it is closer to
native win32 thus allowing me to test a wider range of platforms (testing in
cygwin is not much different than testing on linux, just much slower and
painful).  I realize this is a personal interest and I hope I am not causing
too much burden on developers with my bug reports :-)

I am pretty happy to see mingw just build and run unit tests by making
problematic features just compiled out.  I am not asking anything to be
ported to the native win32 API.

I have never run regression tests on win32, mingw or cygwin, so I really
have no idea whether they are working or not.  I will try to find some time
for testing that soon.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert