Experimental UNICODE-only MinGW Build

Thu Nov 20 17:26:00 GMT 2003

Hi JoÃ£o,
>I still think it is not the logical development path at this moment for 
>a project like this...

I understand that this is a controversial decision, which is why I am
not allowing myself to cast the deciding vote.
>Sorry Mohan, but I really do not understand your priorities! But I can 
>be wrong on my own ones... :-)

I like to be transparent. My priorities are:
- aesthetic beauty. For me, having the entire Win32 piece entirely
 in UNICODE is infinitely more beautiful than translating from
 UNICODE to ANSI, then from ANSI to UNICODE via the Windows A functions
- the accelerated marginalization of Win9X, which I think benefits
 all humankind. (I hope I don't start a flame war here.)
>Nevertheless, I will submit a mixed A/W patch (as you had suggest it) as 
>soon as it is ready (it is almost) and tested (I'll have to find time 
>do build 3.4...). But, as things are right now, I do not really care if 
>it makes it to the FSF sources or not... :-)

I hope you do submit the patch so that the higher-ups have several options
to choose from.
>I am sorry if I have forced you into loosing some more time. But I 
>thought that my simple suggestion could solve the problem for now (I 
>still think it can), and that it would not give you too much extra work 
>or problems cheking it in...

It was worth losing time for this. I aesthetically couldn't resign myself
to doing the UNICODE <-> ANSI <-> UNICODE thing just to pander to a
dying OS yet once again. I'm glad I don't have to make the final decision
in this matter.
-- Mohan
http://www.thisiscool.com/
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