> That was last updated 5 years ago, and most of the activity ended 7 years ago
I know. The author's recent activity <https://github.com/bmatzelle> suggests lack of time and/or interest, but according to a recent post <https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/issues/250>, the project is still maintained. Perhaps you should offer him a helping hand with fixing those shortcomings then? ;-) > Most of the tools there are available from GnuWin32, from MinGW, or > from ezwinports, the latter two are more up to date. I use Chocolatey <https://chocolatey.org/> for installing and managing packages on Windows machines, mainly for setting up CI. Never used ezwinports, I'll look into it. On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 04:21, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > From: John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> > > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:18:15 +1100 > > Cc: groff <groff@gnu.org> > > > > I admit I don't have much to contribute to this discussion, but I haven't > > seen GOW mentioned yet, so I figure I'd bring it up for those who'd be > > interested: > > > > https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow > > That was last updated 5 years ago, and most of the activity ended 7 > years ago. Also, I see MSYS DLLs there, which tells me some of the > programs are MSYS ports, not native Windows ports (MSYS is a fork of > Cygwin which I use only to build native Windows programs using MinGW > tools). > > > GOW stands for "GNU on Windows"; it's a lightweight alternative to > Cygwin. > > Makes developing on Windows so much more bearable... > > Most of the tools there are available from GnuWin32, from MinGW, or > from ezwinports, the latter two are more up to date. >