From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2012-03-22 11:58:34
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On 21 March 2012 10:28, Vasileios Anagnostopoulos wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that there are many packages for mingw at > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/?C=M;O=D > > I would like to ask whether there is any attempt by mingw project to use > them. No. > For example by providing an rpm like tool. For MinGW? No, that's not likely to happen. > It seems that many more > packages could be put there for the benefit of mingw users. They are provided and maintained by the OpenSUSE project, for the benefit of their users; (i.e. those running Linux-->MinGW cross-compilers on the OpenSUSE platform). They are not intended for... > But it is very hard to use them in an msys environment. ...this platform. In common with many of the Linux distributors, OpenSUSE provide packages derived from MinGW, to furnish Linux-->MinGW cross-compilers. They do this without formal reference to MinGW.org, and we provide no formal support for their efforts. Sadly, none of these projects appear to exhibit any incentive to contribute back to MinGW.org. -- Regards, Keith. |