Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:16:29PM -0500, Rob McDonald wrote:

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Well, cygwin is everything but unmaintained.  It's unfair to blaim the
good work of the cygwin folks if you can't get it to work.  I have
*never* had a problem I could not solve with cygwin.  In particular,
*no* package got messed up when I installed/upgraded another package.
Before you ask: I use cygwin extensively.

I'm sorry to have seemed harsh in my criticism.  I have not used Cygwin
seriously in a couple years.  At the time, as a user, I saw no
noticable progress.  The project seemed dead.  I always had trouble
with their package management program.  I'm glad you've never had
similar problems.

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.
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