Re: [Mingw-users] diffutils in MinGW

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

<quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo">
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:38:32 +0100
> ml...@mu... wrote:
>
>> If you can life with the fact that I compiled them with MinGW instead of
>> with MSYS I could send you an archive with the diffutils, no prob.
>
> MinGW instead of MSYS? Do you mean Cygwin instead on MinGW? I'm a little
> confused :-).
>

The diffutils distributed by MinGW is in the MSYS package.  See
http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml,
http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-msys and
http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/Install%20MSYS for more
information on MSYS.

> Besides the problem is that you sending me an archive is not a general
> solution. The software I am working on that requires diffutils 2.8 is
> likely to be worked on by a large number of people and they will all
> need a copy.
>
> What I was sort of hoping for was a statement along the lines of:
>
>    "package X version Y on the MinGW website  has diffutils 2.8"
>
> Is anyone willing to make a statement like that?

As I've said already, if someone is willing to do the work of making the
necessary changes to support MSYS I will be willing to use the 2.8 version
of diffutils.

However, your requirement of a specific version of a utility isn't exactly
portable configuration.  Why do you need version 2.8 of diffutils?  Why is
the package so picky?  You will always see complaints that your package
will not configure on system xyz or abc.  What new feature provided by 2.8
of diffutils is it worth limiting the package to it?

Earnie

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