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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: MSYS2 [Was: Cygwin installer could be much more better]
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140129153456.GC5180@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E90B28.8010703@cwilson.fastmail.fm>

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:07:36AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 1/28/2014 11:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote:
>> That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed:
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2
>
>Oh, goody. The mingw.org people have been working on something they call 
>MSYS2 now for a while...and it appears that the haskell folks are NOT 
>the same people.  So there are TWO msys2's.  Wonderful.

And, of course, we've volunteered to make modifications to Cygwin to try
to avoid the source fork which have gone unreviewed.

cgf

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-29 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAKYyfB08yy5QPk_w2JMPE909s0AK0H-Rmx=c5G4AUYdqLdCVtQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-01-29 14:07 ` Charles Wilson
2014-01-29 15:35   ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2014-01-30 13:41     ` Charles Wilson
2014-01-30 17:01       ` Corinna Vinschen

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