Hi, I've just pushed a redirect from http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net to http://mingw-w64.yaxm.org in order to serve a new website.
I have been taking care of the website for at least a couple years now. Not that I particularly enjoy doing PHP, CSS and Javascript but there was a need. However I suck at design and I had very little time available, which meant all the changes I could do were minimal. Last week I finally bit the bullet and spent half a day assessing whether something based on dokuwiki could work and then spent a day moving the data from the website to that dokuwiki and tweak its them and plugins. This was discussed a bit over IRC and the switch has been hurried by the release of 4.0: I was feeling miserable each time I had to update anything on the website and I really didn't feel like taking one hour just to add a section to the existing layout, especially knowing the website replacement was going to occur soon. The now-old website is still available, only masked through a redirect. Please speak up if you are not pleased with the new one. One notable change is that the website is not served through sourceforge.net anymore. I had started with everything on SF but more often than not, the pages would fail to load. Unfortunately this means there is a user-visible redirection on a temporary subdomain; this is expected to remain for one month at most. NB: this does not change anything else; nothing but the website that has been visible on http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net changes. The wiki from sourceforge is going to be abandoned. Well. Noone has touched wiki2 since it was set up a year ago so it's not a big loss. Dokuwiki should be a nicer place for wiki changes (faster, cuter, and fully integrated into the website obviously). The only minor downside currently is that users cannot register themselves to change the website. This is minor since I can do it on request and because the set of pages that is currently up will not be editable by most people anyway (i.e. main page, downloads). This will be fixed. On a final note I'd like to thank the author of the initial mingw-w64 website. As far as I remember he had a company named CodeCamel but currently the website is MIA but the domain name has been parked with seemingly-innocuous link spam. That website has served mingw-w64 well for around 5 years. Its replacement did not happen out of discontent but because a lot has happened over these 5 years, both the web (mobile, many new viewport sizes, saner browsers, ...) and for mingw-w64 (so many more users, contributors, activity on all fronts and much more content). Working with sourceforge.net SSH access was the painful part as it was slow and not having a CSS theme used (and tested) by many other websites made the process brittle and time-consuming. I wished there had been time to bring the topic on the mailing-list before doing the switch but v4.0 timing made that hard and I've also taken great care to not lose anything in the process. Any constructive criticism is welcome; don't hesitate. -- Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
