Hi, > From: curl-library <curl-library-boun...@lists.haxx.se> On Behalf Of Daniel > Stenberg via curl-library > Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:51 > To: libcurl hacking <curl-library@lists.haxx.se> > Cc: Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> > Subject: Drop support for building with mingw v1? > > Can we drop support for building with mingw v1? > > It would make it slightly easier to get things to build. > > Who would be sad, upset or angry if we remove support for this?
FTR, pretty much the same as I wrote on GitHub and speaking from my experience with other open source projects: The only reason to support original MinGW I see is that people new to software development on Windows seem to often find the original MinGW first. That, in combination with the habit of asking for help instead of reading documentation, led to a lot of noisy questions, in the same way as the recurring linking errors when linking statically without setting the respective define on the consumer side. Apart from that, I'd personally be in favor of removing it. And with it maybe also support for Windows 2000, which I'd only keep so far because original MinGW targets it by default. Marcel -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
