On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:33:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Oct 19 20:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Oct 19 11:33, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>>On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 11:21 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>Other than that, I think it's good to go in after the 1.7.17 release. >>>>I'll try to do the release at some point between now and Monday. >>> >>>I'll include those changes and post a new patch then. > >On second thought... considering that w32api is now Mingw64 based, and >considering that building Cygwin with this Mingw64 built w32api works >fine... what do you guys think about a "once and for all" approach? >Is it really necessary to keep supporting a build against the old >w32api? What does that buy us apart from added complexity? Doesn't >that also mean we have to test our builds against both w32api versions >as long as we support it? I, for one, have no real interest to do so.
I had exactly the same thought. I'm in favor of just doing the switchover. That said, is it time to ask the mingw.org stuff to relocate their CVS repo? I could tar up the affected CVS directories for them if so. cgf