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Re: MSYS2 [Was: Cygwin installer could be much more better]
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:34:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: MSYS2 [Was: Cygwin installer could be much more better]
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:07:36AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 1/28/2014 11:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote:
>> That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed:
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2
>
>Oh, goody. The mingw.org people have been working on something they call
>MSYS2 now for a while...and it appears that the haskell folks are NOT
>the same people. So there are TWO msys2's. Wonderful.
And, of course, we've volunteered to make modifications to Cygwin to try
to avoid the source fork which have gone unreviewed.
cgf