Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Harmonizing mingwrt / w32api with mingw-w64

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Saturday 18 July 2009 23:38:27 Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> I'm therefore proposing that after the upcoming mingwrt release,
> we begin to harmonize with the efforts of Kai and company.  I'm
> willing to put in the effort, because I see it as a definite win /
> win.
>
> Thoughts?

I completely agree; I've never made any secret of my opinion that 
Kai's fork was a *bad* move, detrimental to the synergistic progress 
of both branches of development.

FTR, Kai forked his mingw-64 project without prior consultation or 
explanation.  Coming, as it did, shortly after Danny had questioned 
the provenance of some of Kai's patches, it left a strong impression 
of Kai behaving as a sulky child: "If I can't have my own way, and 
play by my own rules, I'm taking my ball away".

We neither requested nor encouraged the fork, and we would be 
delighted to see the two branches of development merged once again.  
However, we would require a formal audit of mingw-64 code, to ensure 
conformance with our requirements for truly open documentation of 
sources, before such a merge could be completed.

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Regards,
Keith.