[Mingw-users] [ANN] unofficial git repo (was: MinGW forbidden by sf.net)

[Isidor Z. <mi...@qu...>]

> > > True, people are always good at working around tool
> > > deficiencies. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that not having
> > > to do so is a disadvantage.
> > 
> > It's a lot of effort to accurately migrate a VCS while preserving
> > history
> 
> A lot of effort, consisting of one line of code starting with "git
> cvsimport..."
> 

..and because I prefer to act and contribute rather than to
hypothesize about how things could be, I put up a git mirror of the
CVS sources, so the mystics have something to get a warm and fuzzy
feeling about, the nostalgics have something to ignore, and the
gimmick lovers have something to try getting productive with: [1].

Clone away...

> > 
> > It comes down to available manpower and time.  The core devs are tapped
> > out; look how long it's taking to get mingw-get out the door -- and even
> > there, we have a mega-thread from non-core-devs about writing python
> > scripts to install msys/mingw "in the interim until mingw-get is ready"
> > -- INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY HELPING TO GET MINGW-GET READY.  Insanity.
> > 
> 

However, I do wonder to what extent it can be considered insanity when
people try to put up mingw-get alternatives when the mingw homepage
explicitly states "the maintainer is not yet accepting patches"
([2]). I think people interested in a working mingw-get will strive to
simply get things working, be it through patching what doesn't
work well for them.

Best regards,

Isidor

[1] http://gitorious.org/mingw-unofficial
[2] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Official_CVS_Repository