[self-follow-up] At 2026-05-27T23:45:42-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > While I like the idea of using Bruno's "new" (relative to groff) > support for posix_spawn() in gnulib, and he and I have mooted the > issue before,[A] I'm a little leery of screwing with this aspect of > the code unless I can establish a review loop with Eli Zaretskii, who > seems to be the only contributor for many years to groff's Windows > support, and Windows is the only non-POSIX platform for which I have > any evidence of any groff release being circulated on the Web in the > past decade or so.
It's _possible_ that Eli stopped maintaining his "ezwinports" port (I hope just a _build_) of groff for native Windows[1] because MSYS2 provides an equivalent. The MSYS2 folks have kept close track of groff releases for several years.[2] The reason I'm not certain is that, as I understand it (per Wikipedia), MSYS2 provides _two_ system library layers for POSIX/GNU applications. One is truly POSIX-like, much like Cygwin[3] (with which I'm directly familiar, albeit out of currency for about a decade), and the other is "native". If anybody knows more, or runs groff in these environments, I invite you to share your knowledge and experiences! Regards, Branden [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ [2] https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/groff [3] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/groff/
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