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#1185 need better developer docs
webpage talks about downloading packages from website, how to get started as a developer *using* mingw, but not how to get started as a developer *of* mingw. How to I pull the source repo? The wiki has links to "Official CVS" but no information on how to derive pserver or login information.
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Thanks Andy, we have just talked about this issue on our mingw-dlvpr list. In time we will have a wiki page together which will describe what you've pointed out.
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What is more pressing is that the active CVS repository isn't actually the one on sourceforge. It is another on the cygnus site. Providing patches against a "hidden" cvs repo is very difficult and makes it more likely that other projects will fork the source tree.
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Why is that so "pressing"? It isn't really hidden, there is a README file in SF version of CVS that points you to Cygwin's CVS but after reviewing it could use more words. The mingw-runtime and w32api started with Cygwin so it is just historically the place where the source resides.