Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > What I could see > - from https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/How-does-MSYS2-differ-from-Cygwin > - from analysis of a couple of gnulib test failures > is that MSYS2, compared to Cygwin, has problems in the area of file > permissions, > symbolic links, and signals (at least). > > Since anyone can compile for mingw32, mingw64, MSVC 32-bit, and MSVC 64-bit > using Cygwin [1], I don't see the point of investing effort into making GNU > packages build fine on MSYS2.
OTOH, if it's not a lot of work to upstream a few patches, why not? The more environments that I can easily support out of the box, the better for my users. My two cents, Arnold
