Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] reimp

[Volker Grabsch]

Alois Schlögl <address@hidden> schrieb:
> On 11/26/10 19:31, Volker Grabsch wrote:
>> Alois Schlögl<address@hidden>  schrieb:
>>    
>>> http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/software/reimp-0.50.zip
[...]
>> However, I also think that starting a fork of reimp is the wrong
>> way to do that! I compared your reimp-0.50 with mingw-utils-0.4
>> and noticed that you changed just a few lines. So I wonder why
>> didn't contribute those changes directly to the MinGW project.
>
> On 2010-10-25, I did suggest a patch to the mingw-users list here :
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4CC5A3FF.6000006%40gmail.com&forum_name=mingw-users
>
> but got no reply.

I see. You should have mentioned that. :-)

Anyday, I put my patch into their bug tracker in addition to
their mailing list. Let's see whether that helps.

> I got the impression that mingw-users are not really  
> responsive to the needs for building on non-windows platforms.

Even if they really did't care, there should be no issue with
that kind of patches, as they don't affect the Windows build.


Greets,
Volker

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Volker Grabsch
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