On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 01:05, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:

>
> We have documented hundreds of deficiencies of mingw [1] w.r.t. the POSIX
> standard. MSYS is surely worse, not better, than mingw. I recommend to use
> the respective modules, for those POSIX APIs that you use.
>

I'm happy to decide that on a program-by-program basis, and reduce external
dependencies, where that does not increase my code's complexity. I already
described a problem I ran into from using a wider selection of modules (and
you'll see from correspondence in the past that I have run into problems
with gnulib on a regular basis), and I also have to deal with complaints
about the use of gnulib by downstream packagers and other developers
(particularly on Windows, ironically!).

I'm interested in why you suspect MSYS would be worse than mingw? Is it
because it is not as widely used as mingw and therefore the extra POSIX
APIs etc. that it provides are not as well tested?

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