Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
From: Edward Peschko <[email-masked]>
To: Brian Ford <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:44:42 -0700

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:48:47PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Edward Peschko wrote:
> 
> > And anyways, the version numbers in itself are enough to warrant a
> > merge. Coordinate releases of mingw and cygwin, and the version issues
> > go away.
> >
> Cygwin itself doesn't "coordinate releases".  By that I mean Cygwin,
> w32api, gcc, mingw gcc, etc. are never release together as a package.
> Each is updated on its own schedule.
> 
> If you want a "distribution", and it has been discussed before (see the
> archives), start your own.

and compound the problem by making 3 distinct distributions instead of two?

That isn't solving anything at all.

Ed

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