Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 55198 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2008 18:39:14 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 24 Dec 2008 18:39:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 98161 invoked by uid 500); 24 Dec 2008 18:39:13 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 97785 invoked by uid 500); 24 Dec 2008 18:39:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 97776 invoked by uid 99); 24 Dec 2008 18:39:12 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:39:12 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [64.202.165.33] (HELO smtpauth11.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.165.33) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:39:05 +0000 Received: (qmail 19719 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2008 18:38:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.1.187.204) by smtpauth11.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.33) with ESMTP; 24 Dec 2008 18:38:41 -0000 Message-ID: <495281B0.7020809@rowe-clan.net> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:38:40 -0600 From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "carlo.bramix" CC: dev Subject: Re: Apache *PORTABLE* Runtime? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org carlo.bramix wrote: > I believe that APR was never supported very well on mingw+msys. At least, it was not in the last two years since I'm using it. Nope; we periodically apply a group of patches, but none of the core committers actually ran either cygwin or msys/mingw > But hopefully (evidently, you have not checked APR carefully enough!) a full mingw+msys port already exists in bugzilla: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46175 Yup - my own preference would be strong support for msys/mingw because applying a portability layer (apr) on top of a portability layer (cygwin) is a sort of silly exercise ;-)