Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

[Charles Wilson]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> FWIW, I've recently sent email to Mumit Khan for similar reasons.  His
> "ancient" gnu-win32 site still shows up in google and some of the
> outdated techniques espoused there demonstrably cause confusion.

It's even worse that you think.  Last week's LWN contained a newssnippet 
about "Xmingwin" -- a linux-build, mingw-target cross compiler leveraged 
off of Earnie's mingw.  Which, of course, has a heritage from cygwin.

If you read the article that lwn refers to,
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc10.html
you find that ITS "resources" section contains a ton of links to a lot 
of old, unmaintained, and otherwise inaccurate mingw and cygwin sites -- 
including two separate links to Mumit's pages.

And this is a NEW, January 2003 article in IBM's developerWorks.

Sigh.

--Chuck


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