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Rob Walker wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> Rob Walker wrote:
>>> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto 
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an 
>>> upstream patch.  When can Cygwin pick this up?
>> When make 3.82 comes out.
> Thanks.  Is this imminent or scheduled?  Is there anything I can do to 
> help in the meantime?


<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00433.html>


> I spent some time browsing the Cygwin site looking for information about 
> package maintainers.  Most of what I found was how to become a package 
> maintainer for an as-yet-unsupported package.  What I was really looking 
> for was a list of the current maintainers, and possibly information 
> about how to help get an already-owned package updated.


Contacting package owners is done through this list.  The Cygwin package
owner for 'make' has already replied to this thread.


> Maintenance of bash and make seem to follow very different philosophies 
> for updates (the former seems much more active), am I mistaken?


They are two different people.


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