MC 4.5.55 tagged, 4.5.x branch created
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Tue Sep 4 20:25:22 UTC 2001
Hi, Pavel!
> > Cygwin support is very poor. Both the viewer and the editor emit useless
> > warnings every time they are used. But it compiles cleanly.
...
> > The native (non-cygwin) port for Win32 and OS/2 is out of date and does
> > not work, but can be fixed.
>
> Maybe killing native win32 port is good idea? We have cygwin, right?
The native build used to work better than the CygWin version. If anybody
ever decides to make a GPL'd file manager for Windows and OS/2 (and
whatever else system used drives and DOS-style file attributes), the "pc"
directory is the point to start. 150k uncomressed is not that much.
On the other hand, I've been considering a "contrib" directory on the FTP
site that could contain such marginal things as:
1) Non-functional PC port.
2) Drop-in Samba support. The Samba code is rotten, it hardcodes many
paths. But on the other hand, Samba doesn't provide a library with
documented API. sambawrapper.so is rather a loadable module (from the
user point of view), it doesn't even have "lib" in its name.
3) Patch for rxvt that enables "output lines" in Options->Layout (so
called rxvt extensions by Paul Sheer). I was playing with it yesterday
and was amazed that I still works (but not with ncurses).
4) Patches for unarj, ansient ncurses etc.
Then we could remove all that stuff from the sources to the joy of modem
users :-)
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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