Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] MSYS-1.0.1 pre-release

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:55:51PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>I've uploaded my long awaited for fork of Cygwin we all know by the
>name MSYS.  There are currently two files named
>msys-tools-1.0.1-1.tar.gz and msys-sdk-1.0.1-1.tar.gz which you can
>find under package MSYS release 1.0.  This is a hidden package
>currently so you'll need to access it from the project admin page to
>download it.  It is based on the Cygwin 1.3.3 release so the code base
>is current release Cygwin version.

I saw the hints of this but can you provide me with your reason for a
fork?  I hate the idea of a fork.  It usually means that there has been
some kind of falling out between developers over questions of
personality or design.

AFAIK, this is not the case here so I am, I think, understandably
confused.

Since this is in the mingw mailing list, maybe I should assume that this
is some kind of minimal cygwin implementation.  If someone is interested
in providing ifdefs for cygwin which would allow this from the cygwin
sources, I'd happily consider that.  I really don't like the idea of
a fork.

Sorry to respond from a cygwin point of view rather than a mingw one.

cgf