On 2014-05-13 14:29, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Frankly, please give MSYS2 another try. We'd all appreciate it. > > Look at the facts: > > coreutils > newer version released 2 years ago > > bash > newer version released 3 years ago > > git > newer version released 2 years ago > > These are major packages, not just "user X favorite package". Several people > including myself have offered to update them, only to be met with "Sorry, I am > maintainer not you. I will do it when I get time". It gets old after a while.
Now, I'm just a random user, but exactly because these are major packages, it's good to have a maintainer that actually understands and fixes problems related to Cygwin, instead of having a maintainer that just builds the latest version and uploads it. Given that you seem to love MSYS2 so much, I can report that I recently dealt with a \r-issue with MSYS2 bash. I'd rather have a maintainer that insulates me from \r-issues and says "no" before they hit me, than have a maintainer that don't understand why stripping every \r in sight isn't such a good idea. (to be fair, I'm not 100% sure it was an issue with the official MSYS2 bash or if it was some 3rd party patch on top of the official MSYS2 bash, I don't run MSYS2 personally). That said, I'd also love a bash update, but I'd rather have a working bash than a new bash. Because it is a major package. 2 cents Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
