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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:44:42 -0700
From: Edward Peschko <esp5 AT pge DOT com>
To: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
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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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