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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:25:15 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: winsup/mingw libstdc++.a]
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:49:21PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> In the mingw world, they just have to download mingw-runtime, gcc, and
> >> binutils, right?  I'd like to keep the packages the same even if I have
> >> to juggle the internals around a little bit.
> >>
> >
> >But, I'll have to juggle the updates between MinGW and Cygwin versions.
> >I'm not willing to maintain to differing versions and libstdc++.a isn't
> >needed in the MinGW CVS.
> 
> Someone would have to do this regardless of whether it was part of mingw
> or not.  Since I'm currently supporting gcc, that would probably have to
> be me.
> 

There are currently two CVS repositories.  One here and one at
SourceForge.  I've been keeping the two synchronized and I won't be able
to do that with these files included.

> Since I'm currently making the mingw releases for cygwin, I don't mind
> trying to keep the libraries up to date.  I wasn't trying to saddle you
> with a new responsibility.
> 

You're not the only one making MinGW releases.  I've also asked for the
privilege in the past.

> I can move the libraries out of the mingw directory if that is a concern.
> 

The concern is synchronization of the two CVS HEAD's.

> I was basically adding these as a proof-of-concept.  I wanted to make a
> mingw distribution with these libraries and then try things out on my
> system to see if it even worked correctly.  Then I was going to report
> my findings here.
> 

That's fine, I just don't think you should add these binary files to the
CVS repository.

> I thought that this would be a good time to do this since I'm close to
> making a new release of cygwin and I usually release a new version of
> mingw at that time.
> 

I know you do.  However, it will become the Cygwin version of MinGW.

Earnie.

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