As far as I know the most up-to-date package list for the
MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform is
<https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Packages/>, but it states it was
last updated more than a year ago.

Could the developers of the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform please automate
creating that package list on your wiki so that there exists a
continually (or at least once per day or so) updated package list for your
platform?  Or point me to such a package list if you have created it
elsewhere.

A constantly updated package list is important for those like me who
have no access to your platform (no Microsoft Windows here and Wine
has some showstopping bugs that keep me from giving MinGW-w64/MSYS2 a
try on that version of Windows) but need to advise others (PLplot
developers and testers in my case where PLplot has many free software
library dependencies) who do have access to your platform about what
packages and especially package versions are accessible on that
platform.

Sometimes I also need to know information about MinGW-w64/MSYS2
package versions directly for my own needs.  For example, from time to
time I need to make a decision about how much to bump the CMake
minimum version we adopt for PLplot, but that decision obviously
depends on what CMake version is supplied by all important platforms
including your particular platform, and I hate to rely on one-year-old
information about the CMake version available in your case.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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