Re: [PATCH] gnulib: import getline

[Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 02 May 2021 17:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > On 02 May 2021 10:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> > > > getline is in POSIX, but not all targets support it.  e.g. Windows
> > > > (mingw) omit it.
> > > 
> > > Which MinGW?  mingw.org's MinGW does have getline and getdelim.
> > 
> > mingw.org doesn't exist anymore
> 
> Of course it does.

if you mean it as a project name and not a domain name, OK.  if you mean
as a domain name, then no, it does not.  it's a domain squatter.

> > and sf.net/p/mingw hasn't been updated in almost a decade.
> 
> That's a stale URL.  The up-to-date one is here:
> 
>   https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/releases/
> 
> The latest release was on April 12.

the project needs to get its act together then and setup redirects.  the
SF page is the top search results and people are still going there, and
it's seeing tons of downloads per week from it.

> > we switched to http://mingw-w64.org/ for 64-bit support.
> 
> That's fine, but for 32-bit code they are not the only game in town.

ok, but there's not a lot of value in a dying platform.  if the project
doesn't support 64-bit, then it's of limited value.
-mike