Re: Windows support in GDB

[Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com>]

At QNX we're transitioning our Windows SDK from Cygwin to MinGW so these 
patches are very useful for us.  I would expect that in the long term it 
will be in our best interest to make sure that this stuff continues 
working.  Of course, I'm just a developer and don't make policy but at 
least there's one other company that will want to keep this stuff going.

cheers,

Kris

Mark Kettenis wrote:

>Guys, I'm getting a bit of an uneasy feeling here.  It may be that I'm
>getting the wrong impression here, but I've seen quite a bit more
>Windows-related patches than I had in mind when Mark started submitted
>his first patches and said they were fairly limited and mostly some
>configure bits.  The problem here is that they mostly concern the
>non-POSIX nature of Windows, which sets its quit far apart from the
>traditional Unix-like systems that have been converging towards POSIX
>for quite some time now.  This means that we really need to have some
>commitment from the Windows user community for maintaining this stuff.
>Otherwise this will become another MetroWerks disaster.
>
>It's fairly obvious that this development is coming from CodeSourcery.
>There's nothing wrong with that, but I'd like to ask CodeSourcery what
>their commitment to maintaining this new code is.  In the past we have
>seen quite a few contributions from embedded sofware companies.  In
>many cases these contributions were apparently done as contract work,
>and after the work was completed the code was never touched again.
>Can CodeSourcery gives some clarification on this matter?
>
>Mark
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