From: Paul G. <pga...@at...> - 2003-05-26 02:30:19
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> [sorry for the delay in responding. I'm at the gcc conference] > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:30:17PM +0100, Danny Smith wrote: > >If your volunteering to do the maintenance? Wouldn't you like mingw > >changes to be in sync with cygwin too? > > > >FSF is the best place for this kind of thing. Chris has tried it. > >Ask him if it is worth it. > > Except for the maintenance aspect, I think it is well worth having the > source code in cvs, just for the code sharing aspect. It cuts down on > the "Danny, could you send me your latest patches" aspect of > maintenance. Personal experience, I have attempted to find the Mingw specific modifications to gcc (FSF) on a number of ocassions, only to be discouraged by the sheer number of variations which do not even remotely, in some cases, come close to the Mingw specific variations of GCC. That , of course, is before even being able to consider all of the most recent patches that must be added to the existing FSF cvs (updates) in order to obtain what I define as a "reasonable snapshot" of GCC - Mingw. It was, and, without an official Mingw Branch remains, frustrating. Paul G. |