From: Earnie <ea...@us...> - 2011-10-13 13:59:47
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H Xu wrote: > On 2011/10/13 20:33, Earnie wrote: >> Charles Wilson wrote: >>> We haven't really had the discussion about handling additional packages. >>> I think that deserves its own thread, to consider the issues: What do >>> we do about "contributed" mingw32 libraries and exes? Should they even >>> be considered for acceptance as part of the mingw.org packageset? Should >>> that be a separate project (with its own mingw-get-compatible >>> repository?) OR, should it be managed as an intrinsic part of the >>> "core" offerings here @ mingw.org? Policies& procedures? >>> >> >> My stance has been that if someone is willing to maintain and upload the >> package then we can offer it. Often though the maintainer doesn't stick >> around long enough to allow for updating the packages. Certainly a >> separate project to do this isn't in the best interest of MinGW. > > Some linux distributions' packages also depend on volunteers but things > are not that bad, right? More volunteers for Linux than Windows. It becomes bad when people begin looking for an updated package and there is no maintainer to give it to them which then puts a tick on someone else's all ready full round tuit list. Earnie |