Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?
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- Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
- Date
- Jan 1, 2006, 05:25 UTC
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- <20060101052533.GA31098@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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- <43B6FDC5.6020601@zytor.com>
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:53:09PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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>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.
Yes, Cygwin isn't a new project so ideas like this have been kicked around many times over the years. You can't just port rpm, apt, or yum and then say "We'll use this for updates now" because there are chicken/egg problems. The problems are not unsolvable but, so far, no one has cared enough to do anything about them.
cgf