Re[2]: [Mingw-users] Speculation on the name "mingw"

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello Chris,

Chris Telting <tel...@mi...> wrote:

CT> Sure though I doubt I'll get but a couple responces.  Last time
CT> I brought it up no one really cared.

    Well, but did you yourself read others' messages on this topic?
For example, did you read my forward from libtool mailing list about
whole "gnu-win32" issue? It mentioned one and only feasible reason for
changing - not 'Mingw' name, it's decoding - disauthorizition of using
'GNU' as part of the name by FSF. Nothing like that takes place. So
there's no reason to change name.

    But there're always a lot of reasons to keep it - one is that
purpose of name is to denote specific notion, and when name is
changed, this reference is broken, what contradicts the purpose of the
name. Second, that's author who named it so, so not you or me to
change it. We'd rather be sure that author had an idea when named it.
And I belive that Colin Peters chose name right. Do you?



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