Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin

[Charles Wilson]

On 6/18/2013 2:40 PM, Алексей Павлов wrote:
> I want to add MSYS functionality to Cygwin.
> More than 10 years ago Cygwin 1.3 had forked to MSYS. But now this
> MSYS is very old and don't has any support for it.
...
>
> I want to hear your opinions about how it can be implemented in Cygwin codebase.

Go over to the mingw.org mailing lists; there is ongoing effort related 
to MSYS2 which is based on a much more recent fork of cygwin IIUC. Also, 
many of the earlier hacks that msys-1 implemented are no longer needed 
thanks to exploiting new features in the underlying cygwin (like: 
/etc/fstab).

Also, I *think* the development is being tracked as a branch from a 
cygwin repo clone, so keeping msys2 updated with respect to cygwin 
changes should be easier.

However, discussing "not-cygwin" on the cygwin list(s) is A Bad Idea, so 
you should go "over there" and talk it out with those guys.

--
Chuck


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