Proposal for discussion - remove all Windows-port cruft

[Mark Atwood]

How much window porting cruft is there?

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,

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Now that Windows is supposedly able to run Linux binaries, it seems to me
> we should be able to discard the Windows port cruft.
>
> Yes, there are probably glitches in their implementation. So be it: by
> the time we're under any real pressure to ship a Windows port (which
> might be never) I think there are good odds the glitches will be be
> weell enough understood that working around them will be easier than
> maintaining the port shims we carry now.
>
> Mark should make this call, because strategy for woorld domination is
> his job. My recommendation is: deep-six that stuff.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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