From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22178 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2014 15:35:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22169 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jan 2014 15:35:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:35:00 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-44-31.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.44.31] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W8XAI-000MZu-OK for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:34:58 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id DAF4860108 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:34:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:34:56 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/rnsGA33VLUw2WQGql1ii5 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:35:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MSYS2 [Was: Cygwin installer could be much more better] Message-ID: <20140129153456.GC5180@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <52E90B28.8010703@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52E90B28.8010703@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-q1/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 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