From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:53:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43B6FDC5.6020601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051231163952.GA29284@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> As was mentioned, the Cygwin project is very far from dead and has
> actually never been close to dead. It is, however, like any open source
> project and things like the setup program are always under slow,
> sporadic development.
>
> The core cygwin dll is under active development and maintenance and most
> of the packages in the distribution are under active maintenance, however.
Cygwin probably could benefit greatly if they adopted something like
rpm/yum for packaging, instead of reinventing the wheel.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-31 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-24 2:34 Possibility of a MinGW version? Rob McDonald
2005-12-24 10:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-24 10:18 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-12-24 10:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-24 12:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-24 16:40 ` David Brown
2005-12-24 13:51 ` Rob McDonald
2005-12-24 14:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-25 17:16 ` Rob McDonald
2005-12-31 16:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-12-31 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-01 5:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-12-31 16:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-12-24 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-24 23:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-25 1:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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