Mingw and w32api package names.

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue Sep 11 08:58:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Shortly I'll be releasing new packages for MinGW and w32api.  The
>current file name for MinGW isn't really reflective of the package name
>itself.  I would like to use mingw-runtime-$(VERSION)-$(CYGRELEASE) for
>the name.  I would also like to use w32api-$(VERSION)-$(CYGRELEASE) for
>the w32api package name.  This is more consistent with the packaging and
>is more consistent with the way the packages are distributed by the
>MinGW team.  Comments or objections?

I'm sure that this it will confuse the current version of setup if you
call this mingw-runtime.  How are you planning on dealing with the
changeover?

cgf



More information about the Cygwin-apps mailing list