I have aolserver 3.3ad13 with nssha1; I'll import it shortly. Ok, it's now imported and there's a release in the Files area.
Would it be possible to create an automated process to take a release of AOLserver core and apply the patches to make it work on Windows? If so, then I'd say get the Win32 port working with AOLserver 3.5.0 / 4.x and package the patches into a distribution that has a makefile to apply them. Every time a new AOLserver release was ready, Win32 maintainers could go and update the patch distribution.
As for the modules, there's no reason a patch file can't be maintained in the module dist and a makefile target added to apply the patch for Windows users. Can we do that for now?
Where can I go look at Yon's test suite framework? I'm already working on one. I hear Jerry Asher has a test framework too that I'm going to look at.