Re: [Mingw-users] libintl 0.17-1 with builtin relocation support.

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

Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Op 18-05-10 19:02, Earnie schreef:
>> I understand what you are trying to say but regardless I cannot allow
>> the announcement of packages that are not directly distributable from
>> the MinGW project.
>>
>>
>
> I didn't know. This rule is not part of the etiquette.
>

Some things are just assumed to be common sense.  Allowing this would 
cause MinGW to become disjointed and forked everywhere.  No one would 
know where to go for a package on top of the already confusing download 
list.

> I added the patch to the MinGW tracker for the record, although I know
> it's useless.
>

Well it won't get lost that way but maybe forgotten.

> Next thing I do is see if I didn't break anything on Unix/Linux and then
> try again to get it in upstream gettext.
>

That would be the better thing to do.

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