From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version? Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:53:09 -0800 Message-ID: <43B6FDC5.6020601@zytor.com> References: <006c01c60832$86f92620$6900a8c0@sps> <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se> <009701c60891$50893fd0$6900a8c0@sps> <003101c60976$f2912ff0$6900a8c0@sps> <20051231163952.GA29284@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 31 22:54:39 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsogN-0001sR-3U for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:54:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932319AbVLaVxW (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:53:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932333AbVLaVxW (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:53:22 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:49824 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932319AbVLaVxV (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:53:21 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBVLr93Z023259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:53:10 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Christopher Faylor In-Reply-To: <20051231163952.GA29284@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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