***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] ALSA / libasound

["John Emmas" <johne53@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Marshall"
>
>> On Monday 06 October 2008 05:41:40 John Emmas wrote:
>>
>> Brian - that's a very clear distinction which I found hugely
>> helpful.
>
>Even though it's a load of old codswallop?
>

LOL - a bit harsh, maybe... :-)   My main source of confusion was over the
level of POSIX support provided by the 2 different approaches.  Wikipedia
seemed to suggest that there's no POSIX support at all in MinGW whereas
the MinGW home page says that POSIX support is provided by MSYS.  To be
fair to Brian, I thought he explained very well that neither MinGW nor MSYS
extend that support to user-compiled apps.  IMHO, this needs to be clarified
in the Wikipedia article which (at present) is inaccurate and confusing.

And for my own personal preference, I think it would be better to clarify
any inaccuracies in the Wikipedia entry, rather than just direct people to
the MinGW home page.  For this particular issue, the home page clarifies the
situation immediately and obviously.  But the home page is bound to change
over time.  Therefore the facts might end up getting buried somewhere less
obvious, as time progresses.

John 


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