Re: [Mingw-users] [ANN] development system packaged with mingw

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

Miroslav Fidler wrote:
>>PLEASE:
>>
>>This is not an official announcement of a MinGW team supported product.
>>  This list is not for advertisements.  This is considered SPAM.
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>>Miroslav Fidler wrote:
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>>>http://www.ntllib.org/upp/
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> 
> Hm, makes me wonder... Right now my partner is finishing new LD/mingw
> replacement. It is about 10 times faster than present LD/mingw and supports
> dead code elimination. Both U++ and this LD replacement are distributed
> under GPL.
> 
> Where should we announce availability of that? Is there any other
> mingw-related list/group? Or should we rather keep it secret to not induce
> another SPAM? Or will [ANN-SPAM] in subject do the trick?
> 

I'm all for improvement in the tools that make up MinGW.  If your 
changes are submitted and accepted to binutils as owned by the FSF then 
MinGW will eventually support your changes with its binary 
distributions.  Currently, Danny Smith is the MinGW binutils packager 
and maintainer.  If you wish to become that, perhaps you can work with 
Danny.

If your LD is not a part of binutils, then it is not currently MinGW, 
even though it may link mingw32-gcc compiled objects.  It may be an 
alternative to the MinGW supported ld, it is still not a MinGW 
distributed ld and it will have its own set of problems that you must 
contend with.  You will need to setup your own support lists, forums and 
tracking mechanisms.

Announcements of packages not distributed officially by MinGW are not 
welcome, especially when [ANN] or [ANNOUNCEMENT] or any other such 
claimer is applied.  The reason for this is that it leads to confusion 
as to who is doing the distribution.  I do not want someone asking for 
support for an unofficially announced package using this or any other 
MinGW supplied list or forum.

On the other hand an informative mail about an alternative method isn't 
off topic, just don't claim it as an official announcement.  The product 
must have its own support mechanism.

Earnie
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