2014-08-14 22:48 GMT-03:00 Óscar Fuentes <[email protected]>:
> IMHO MSYS2 should limit itself to patches required by the specific needs
> of this environment (and perhaps some MinGW-w64 patches.) Broadening the
> scope is a recipe for maintainer burn-out.
>
I disagree. Local patches are usually forwarded upstream then removed when
applied there. But upstream can be pretty
<https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14970> stubborn
<https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1458>, so sometimes you just give up.
It's a matter of balance whether to create local patches or not. Consider
this concrete example
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-06/msg00020.html>, should
it be included in MSYS2? Maybe,if the benefit overcomes the cost, then why
not? After all, this is why MSYS2 exists, because splitting off from
MinGW.org was considered worth the work.
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