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Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:03:47 -0400
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From: "Brian Hassink" <bhassink AT hatterasnetworks DOT com>
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Respectfully,

Doesn't this just push the maintenance effort elsewhere? Suppose the
upstream maintainer has "no fun" either?

There are obviously a lot of users in the cygwin community using this
feature of cygwin make and would like to see it continue to be
supported.

Why can't a new maintainer step forward to do so?  If the interests of
the current maintainer diverge from those of the larger community, then
perhaps it's time for the maintainer to consider stepping aside?

Again, I'm saying/asking this respectfully.

-Brian


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From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

> - have the patch made part of the upstream gnu make

That's the best solutiion of all.  The whole "problem" is that the
current Cygwin make maintainer has no fun to work on this issue.
Everybody else is free to put a bit of time and sweat into this and get
this for free firther on.  I'm still wondering why people don't go this
way instead of discussing this problem, which is none, IMHO, to death.


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