From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2009-04-14 17:45:06
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Quoting FITHIS <va...@te...>: > "This list isn't an announcement list for other projects. What does this > have to do with MinGW?" > > We didn't anounce a new project, we offer precompiled binaries with This is a project other than MinGW. We do not accept on this list announcements of other distributions. > tdm-gcc and the patched/original sources for the convenience of MingW We do not support the TDM versions and the website where you find these appropriately says so. > users. We do not use Visual Studio or copied binaries, it is compiled > with mingw (on my PC) and tdm-gcc (at the work desktop) moreover people > can replace the folder mingw (taking some precautions like preserving > extra files in the GL folder in include) with the original mingw and > rebuild the modified sources in order to have these libraries compiled > with mingw. It is merely for convenience, nothing more. So people will > not have to rely on Gnuwin32 packages only. Moreover they can inspect > the diffs and Codeblocks projects as self-study. If you feel we did > something not appropriate just tell us. If you believe it is more > appropriate to use the real mingw we will be happy to change it. > If you wish to distribute work for MinGW and you are willing to maintain that work and answer the support questions and issues then we can give you upload privileges to SF. External links to other distributions make me very nervous and can lead to confusion. -- Earnie |