I removed the original poster about beos, as this is more general.
> ``Will it make life more difficult for the maintainers?''
I think beos support won't, as long as the code is only
detecting a signature or someone supports the extra code.
> OY> [...] so we can give
> OY> them more opportunity to broaden the idea of free software.
Agreed. On the other hand, I don't think support for building under
windows is worth the effort (and even if it was, I can't do it as you
appeared to imply, as I have no such OS around.
/alessandro
