I think we've had this discussion before, though I can't remember the venue and I support the first point and am open to the second.

In some of the early Vanilla design discussions, there was concern about not trying to build GNU/Perl if we can avoid it. Including MSYS so that end users can compile libraries pre-supposes that the solution to the external library problem is having each user compile their own.

In any case, I've added both points to the Vanilla Perl Roadmap, g77 for Build 8 and the other to the "additional toolchain" entry of the backlog. Both would be released and tested in Vanilla before being added to Strawberry. So they're under "official" consideration, to the extent that anything about Vanilla Perl could be considered that.

-xdg

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