On Oct 23 17:48, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:50:10PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > >And just like Earnie's, the response he requested from me also bounced. > >Forwarded copy below: > > >-------- Original Message -------- > >Subject: Re: [patch]: Decouple cygwin building from in-tree mingw/w32api > >building > >Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:41:07 +0100 > >From: Keith Marshall <...> > >Organization: MinGW Project > >To: Earnie Boyd <...> > >CC: cygwin-patches<...> > > > >On 22/10/12 12:14, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>Earnie, we seem to be transitioning from the need to have a > >>>mingw/w32api in the source tree. What do you think about removing > >>>these directories from the depot and moving repo to sourceforge, or > >>>some other place? > >> > >>In anticipation of this event I've already copied the source. I would > >>like to leave the code in winsup until the end of the year if that > >>timeline is fine with Keith. > > > >Fine by me; I also have my Mercurial clones of both repositories, from > >the time when we abandoned them in favour of our own git repository on > >SourceForge. > > > >>>You've got a home for as long as you like on sourceware.org but I was > >>>thinking that it might be advantageous for mingw to move anyway. > >> > >>Thanks and we agree that the move is advantageous. > >> > >>>If it helps, I can provide tar copies of the directories from > >>>sourceware. > >> > >>I don't think I need them; Keith what do you think? > > > >We've moved on, anyway; any such copies would surely be obsolete. > > I think it's pretty clear that we didn't know you had moved on. The > last update to w32api was on 2012-08-10 and mingw was on 2012-08-06. > > A heads up would have been appreciated.
Just to be sure: Does that mean we can simply remove the mingw and w32api dirs in the sourceware repo any time? Corinna
