Are you aware that porting stuff to work properly on strange platforms like Windows is Hard? And that the people doing it are volunteers? I'm sure there's lots of stuff that the Strawberry farmers would like to do to improve things, but there's nothing that they *need to* do.

Alien::* and its ilk is always gonna be weird. They'll also fail on VMS and on platforms which have the "wrong" shell. I suggest you submit bug reports and patches.