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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all being way out of date I have already switched to MSYS2 once.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

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