Re: [Mingw-users] The Fedora cross-compiler project

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

Quoting "Richard W.M. Jones" <rj...@re...>:

> Hi,
>
> Gianluca pointed me to the discussion here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/28909
>
> First of all, I hope we didn't get off on the wrong foot.
>
> There are a couple of things I'd like to say in reference to that
> thread.  Firstly, my apologies for not communicating what we were
> doing back to you before now.  Secondly, our use of the name "MinGW"
> is unfortunate for us: Originally we were just going to recompile the
> MinGW packages from Debian (basically just the compiler/binutils/
> w32api & runtime), and since then things have spiralled out of control
> so now we are packaging dozens of libraries as well, and the
> "mingw32-" prefix and MinGW name stuck.
>

I just want to let you know that we have no trademark rights on the 
names MinGW, mingw32, mingw64 or any other spelling of it.  Therefore, 
legally you have the right to use it.

> So what are we up to?
>
> Making it possible to cross-compile complex applications from a single
> source tree.
>
> Adding additional tools / scripts to make it particularly easy (for
> Fedora users).
>
> Building up documentation.
>
> Trying to encourage upstream free software developers to routinely
> build and test for Windows.
>
> Advocating cross-compilation as a solution for both free software and
> proprietary developers to use if they want to deliver on multiple
> platforms.
>
> Getting as many Fedora developers involved to package and maintain
> libraries.
>

All of these are well defined and worthy of achieving goals.  I wish 
you well in you endeavor.

Earnie