Re: [Mingw-users] Announcing the msysGitDevEnv project / OpenSSL for MinGW

[Sebastian S. <ssc...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 15:45, Charles Wilson
<cwi...@us...> wrote:

> The approach being pursued by the OP is VERY close to my actual
> *recommendation* for 3rd party providers (e.g. modify
> mingw-get-inst-like installers, wrapping mingw-get).  I wholeheartedly
> approve of this development.

I'm glad to read that!

> Now, that having been said, msysgit (ne' mingw-git) and its related msys
> "distribution" IS and remains a fork, since (I think) they use or have
> used(?) a modified version of the msys DLL...not too thrilled about that
> part.

It never was our intention to fork MinGW / MSYS, our sole goal is to
create a good (i.e. fast and stable) Git experience on Windows. As
such, we've done some patches to the msys DLL along the way, but up
until now my belief was that all our patches were also proposed to be
included upstream. In fact, some time ago Earnie even asked for our
changes, and we gladly provided them [1]. Although I didn't follow the
MSYS changes closely, I was assuming the only reason for us not using
upstream MSYS is that not all of our patches were accepted yet.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/edd01c25d094be84/badb76e59ac66bc1?lnk=gst&q=earnie#badb76e59ac66bc1

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Sebastian Schuberth