From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10586 invoked by alias); 13 May 2014 05:56:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10577 invoked by uid 89); 13 May 2014 05:56:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SEMBACKSCATTER autolearn=no 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; Tue, 13 May 2014 05:56:30 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-166.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.166] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Wk5hU-0009rx-LQ for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 13 May 2014 05:56:28 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 4825B600D0 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 01:56:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 13 May 2014 01:56:27 -0400 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: U2FsdGVkX19YLnyy+ab65Vnsu4mbMTGG Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 08:29:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Update CoreUtils Message-ID: <20140513055627.GA671@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5370E017.5000206@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00242.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:33:06PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> I haven't relinquished maintainership of this package yet. It's still >> on my list of things to build, when I get a moment (although free time >> has been a bit sparse as of late with the birth of my daughter last month). > >Frankly I dont see how you can hold maintainer and not even update once a year. >Between > >- coreutils >- bash >- git >- lack of a real package manager > >all being way out of date I have already switched to MSYS2 once. The only reason >I came back is they still havent fixed the jacked mount points > > C:/msys64 on /usr > C:/msys64 on / > >while Cygwin correctly does > > C:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin > C:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib > C:/cygwin64 on / Frankly, please give MSYS2 another try. We'd all appreciate it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple