From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:53:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?
Message-ID: <43B6FDC5.6020601@zytor.com>
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