<div dir="ltr"><div>How much window porting cruft is there?<br><br></div>I would like to see it run. I'm going to be at OSCON next week, and will have a conversation with one of the MSFT people who implemented the the syscall shim,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM Eric S. Raymond <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Now that Windows is supposedly able to run Linux binaries, it seems to me<br>
we should be able to discard the Windows port cruft.<br>
<br>
Yes, there are probably glitches in their implementation. So be it: by<br>
the time we're under any real pressure to ship a Windows port (which<br>
might be never) I think there are good odds the glitches will be be<br>
weell enough understood that working around them will be easier than<br>
maintaining the port shims we carry now.<br>
<br>
Mark should make this call, because strategy for woorld domination is<br>
his job. My recommendation is: deep-six that stuff.<br>
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<a href="<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/</a>">Eric S. Raymond</a><br>
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