From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2000-10-10 14:13:17
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--- Chris Faylor <cg...@cy...> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:51:15PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > But neither we talk abouth this. Time when mingw releases was more > >up-to-date than cygwin are long gone. What we are trying to do is > >basically bring mingw32 distribution up to date with current toolchain > >(i.e., mostly binutils); and next, lay the foundation for its future > >development. Mingw runtime hasn't changed since latest > >snapshot (2000-03) and not much (if any) patches are there. > > It sounds like there is more to the current version of mingw than what > is in cygwin, though. For one thing, the crtdll support seems to be > wrong. Or, maybe I just screwed up gcc or something. > I don't think that -mno-cygwin is broken. It's a user problem. Any ANSI compliant code will build without complaint with or without the -mno-cygwin switch. The problem is the misconception that a POSIX package will build with the -mno-cygwin switch just because it's Cygwin. > >So, basically there's nothing to update (just maybe do it fit better). > >However, there're patches to w32api flying on mingw maillist. > > This is a problem. Hopefully, we'll be able to dig up the version that > Mumit initially imported into CVS so that we can come up with coherent > patches. As you probably know, we've been changing w32api quite > heavily. > This is the reason I wanted to engage you in this thread, Chris. I wanted to stop the skewing I saw taking place. IMO, w32api needs to be a recognized package with it's own list to post changes. The GNU mirrors still contain the original WINDOWS32API package from 1996 and a lobby to have that replaced with our current w32api package needs to occur. > >CF> As always, I'm willing to provide cvs access, web pages, ftp areas, or > >CF> whatever it takes to accomodate this. I'll provide any assistance that > >CF> I can, short of doing everything myself. > > > > So, if you will be willing to give cvs commit to w32api to Mingw > >developers, we would really appreciate this and that's exactly what > >can be done right now, not more. But doing so will allow for seamless > >evolution of mingw project, and in the future there may be found > >interested parties to re-intergrate it into cygwin, etc. > > Just fill out http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-account-form.cgi . > > That will be sent to me and I'll set you up with a CVS account. > I'll see to it. > If I don't recognize the name, I might check with you or Earnie, though. > You could check the http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ page and check list of admin. If anyone isn't listed there and you didn't hear from us in advance then you can just reject it. Current admin's are Mumit, Paul S. and myself. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:ear...@ya... --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ |