Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/03/12:44:45
* Christopher Faylor (2006-05-03 16:28 +0000)
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:51:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>Danny Harris, le Wed 03 May 2006 14:41:48 +0100, a ?crit :
>>>I'd love to have the time to do that! I'd be prepared to have a go at a
>>>one off update for now though, if anyone can point me in the right
>>>direction to get started?
>>
>>http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
> But, for the record, we don't do "one-off" updates. You're either a
> maintainer or you're not. The above instructions are for people who
> want to become full-time maintainers.
I, too, stumbled over the old lftp (and had to compile it myself).
Wouldn't it make sense to prune the Cygwin distribution from packages
that are over - let's say - one year outdated compared to the upstream
version? I think it's better not to have some package available than
very outdated ones.
Thorsten
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