Re: [PATCH v3 08/12] mingw: rely on MSYS2's metadata instead of hard-coding it

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 9, 2026, 20:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7ac8168d-5b5f-fec2-ec91-ff72f7b6f1fa@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <9f078382-411f-4865-9f01-4fe0b1ee118f@kdbg.org>

Hi Hannes,

On Wed, 9 Sep 2026, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Am 09.09.26 um 21:17 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget:
> > [...]
> > 
> > Note: This keeps the same, hard-coded MSYSTEM platform support for CMake
> > as before, but drops it for Meson (because it is unclear how Meson could
> > do this in a more flexible manner).
> 
> I think this paragraph is now stale and should be removed from this
> commit message. I don't know if it makes sense to insert in 12/12, though.

D'oh, of course! It _was_ unclear to me how Meson could do this, but I obviously found a way to support this _somewhat_.

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> > 
> > Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> Except for this, this is looking good now.

Yes, this should also have a `Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>`.

Junio, can you squash those changes before merging to `next`, or do you want me to send another iteration before I go to bed?

Ciao, Johannes

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> -- Hannes
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