2014-12-08 19:32 GMT+01:00 Jim Michaels <[email protected]>:
> is this msys2 something that applies to mingw-w64? should I be using this
> instead of
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External%20binary%20packages%20%28Win64%20hosted%29/MSYS%20%2832-bit%29/
> ?
>
That is a ridiculously outdated all-in-one MSYS package from way back when.
You should really try MSYS2, it's a lot better in pretty much all aspects.
Ruben
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> *From:* Alexpux <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Monday, December 8, 2014 3:01 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS2 is violating the GPL again
>
>
> 8 дек. 2014 г., в 13:48, Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
> написал(а):
>
> Hi,
>
> I just had a look on the MSYS2 pages at sourceforge. It turned out that
> the Cygwin sources provided on sourceforge,
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/Sources/msys2-runtime-2.0.15816.7257e97-1.src.tar.gz/download
>
> are very old, from 2014-02-02, while the latest binary packages, for
> instance
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/x86_64/msys2-runtime-2.0.16430.e868fe8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz/download
>
> corresponds to the latest Cygwin source code from 2014-12-06.
>
> The corresponding source repository at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/code/ci/master/tree/
>
> is even older, with the latest sources from late 2013.
>
>
> I’m use github as primary source for building packages:
> https://github.com/Alexpux/Cygwin/tree/Cygwin
>
> PKGBILD:
>
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/msys2-runtime/PKGBUILD#L26
>
> Will update sf.net repo today.
>
>
> And this is only for Cygwin. The situation of the other upstream
> packages isn't better. About half of the binary packages are younger
> than 6 month, while the latest source archives have been updated
> 2014-06-11.
>
> You're violating the GPL again in a pretty big style. Yes, not all of
> the affected packages are GPLed, but a lot are. What is so complicated
> to keep the sources up to date with the binary packages?
>
>
> I’m provide git repository with build scripts and patches that applies to
> sources:
> For mingw:
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
>
> For msys2:
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages
>
> Regards,
> Alexey.
>
>
>
>
> Please fix this ASAP.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Maintainer
> Red Hat
>
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