Re: [Mingw-msys] Where has MSYS gone?

[Patrick S. <Pat...@ca...>]

Hi Keith

First thanks to Brian for the links, that worked fine.

Keith, when I said the website seems broken, then I didn't mean it only lacks a bit of information, but that it shows an error:
 "[an error occurred while processing this directive]"

And I really dont see how I could access those MSYS files on SF. When I select (as I did all the years) "Download"-"Browse all files" then I will not see any MSYS files or packages! They only appear after clicking on "View older releases in the Snapshot package »" in the Snapshot package. This is not very intuitive I must say. :-/

But it worked fine now, I installed 1.10 and copied the snapshot files over it.

Thanks for your help, pat



>>> On 10.07.2007 at 11:05, in message
<OF3...@to...>,
Keith MARSHALL<kei...@to...>
wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Patrick Scheller wrote:
>> It seems that the MingW site is broken somehow (or maybe even
>> been hacked?)
> 
> Nope.  I *fixed* it recently, so it no longer shows information
> which is two years out of date.
> 
>> so I don't see the latest additions,
> 
> The definitive source for the latest additions has *always* been
> SourceForge, (at least since the project has been hosted there), and
> MinGW.org has always advised looking there, for latest versions.
> 
>> but worse even: All the MSYS files on Sourceforge have disappeared!!
> 
> No, they have not; you just aren't looking hard enough.  You need to
> click through the `View older releases from the XYZ package', to see
> the full content of each package set.
> 
>> What happened?
> 
> SourceForge changed the layout of project download pages, about two
> years ago.  That change broke the process which previously kept the
> info on MinGW.org in sync.  We tried playing `catch up' for a while,
> but SF eventually broke our resolve, by persistently moving the
> goal posts.
> 
>> Are they moving things around?
> 
> We are considering doing so; at present, only the mingwPORTs have
> moved, to their own package set, but still on the SF page.
> 
>> I really need the latest MSYS right now :S
> 
> So, look in the `Snapshot' package set, for the prerelease MSYS-1.0.11
> components; I've been using them for about six months now, and I find
> them to be stable.  If there are components missing there, look in the
> `Current' package set.
> 
> If you just want the last full package release, the now very dated
> MSYS-1.0.10, it's in the `Current' set.
> 
> Regards,
> Keith.
> 
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