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Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Dec 31, 2005, 21:53 UTC
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> 
> 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
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  1. Rob McDonaldDec 24, 2005
  2. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  3. Sven VerdoolaegeDec 24, 2005
  4. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 24, 2005
  6. David BrownDec 24, 2005
  7. Rob McDonaldDec 24, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 24, 2005
  9. Rob McDonaldDec 25, 2005
  10. Christopher FaylorDec 31, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinDec 31, 2005
  12. Christopher FaylorJan 1, 2006
  13. Christopher FaylorDec 31, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 24, 2005
  15. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 25, 2005

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