RayDonnelly

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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
It's really nice to see the amount of gnome stuff we've got now. And GTK-3 on Windows looks quite pretty I think.
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
IMHO you have managed to get into a situation where Windows has been asked to run two different cygwin1.dlls at the same time and Cygwin has detected this. (I recommend using Process Hacker 2 for helping to track down which processes have h
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
Indeed, we really want people attached to or passionate about the projects we provide packages for to jump on board. There's loads of interesting work to do, so please consider rolling your sleeves up.
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
It's the latter. Arch Linux is Arch Linux.
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
The same way that Cygwin implements fork (the msys2-runtime is a very light fork of Cygwin): https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.api.fork The packages in the msys2 repository (which, if they link to msys-2.0.dll are all GPL
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
Yes, we are very concurrent with Cygwin. We have a modern Github-centric approach to software development and use ArchLinux's Pacman so like them are a rolling software distribution. We hope that other software projects will use us as
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
Autorebase hell is I hope a thing of the past. We made all of the executables involved in the running of pacman static (except msys-2.0.dll obviously, and some post-install scripts, but we try to remove those) and split the update procedur
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
This sounds like you're trying to scare people off using MSYS2 altogether with the GPL bogey man, and it misrepresents the point of MSYS2. The 'msys2' software repository (as opposed to the 'mingw32' and 'mingw
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
As soon as Microsoft open sources PowerShell I'll be more than happy to take a look at it and perhaps add it to MSYS2. Until then for me and many like me, it's neither half bad nor half good, it lies orthogonal to the scale on whi
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
As far as I can tell (initial glance only), building this port requires Visual Studio which is a shame. It'd require a bit of effort to port. I wish MS had gone down the CMake route again. As for Cygwin's sshd, we don't want
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
In my industry, app data size swamps app executable size by a factor of about 2000.. So all this app thinning stuff seems useless (to me).
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
MSYS2 packages are signed by Alexey Pavlov. Pacman won't install unsigned ones by default.
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by RayDonnelly 11y ago
We hear you, so long as our project isn't hijacked we'll never agree to malware (or any other) bundling. Hopefully SF will not deem us to have abandoned the project either!
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
There was a recent discussion on Reddit where some MSYS2 users chimed in that which may cover some useful ground: http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/2v6vlg/decission_which_...
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
Thanks, sure, POSIX is a round hole and Windows a square peg, but I think that the excellent work done by Cygwin over the last few years has done a great deal to file down the edges of the Windows peg. MSYS2's hacks on top usually func
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
I was asking about "MSYS2/MinGW-w64". You seem to be confusing mingw.org ( http://www.mingw.org/wiki/getting_started ) and MinGW-w64 ( http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net ) and your rant seems entir
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
Care to explain what's gross about MSYS2/MinGW-w64? I'm genuinely interested in making it less gross.
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
There's also MSYS2, we are on SourceForge, but we'll never bundle or allow bundling crapware with our installer (and we release .tar.xz files for people who don't like installers). https://sourceforge.net/proj
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
No. As stated in the article, the array was not copied when it was assigned to var b as changes made to it via b also showed up in a.
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by RayDonnelly 12y ago
This email just in today: http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/android-development/20... It's native look and feel though, and not native integration. However AFAIK it goes to great lengths to blend in with
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by RayDonnelly 13y ago
Yes, pacman is wonderful. We're very grateful to the Arch Linux devs. You guys are all correct, we've not paid nearly enough attention to marketing. Here's the description I tried to post: MSYS2 is an updated, modern version
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by RayDonnelly 13y ago
mingw and MinGW-w64 are not the same thing, so that URL would be less than useful. MSYS2 is firmly in the MinGW-w64 camp. The schism happened when GCC was ported to 64bit Windows and we've not looked back since (much; working together
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by RayDonnelly 13y ago
If you like your FOSS I can recommend MSYS2. http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2 (disclaimer: I work on MSYS2)
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by RayDonnelly 13y ago
This is an interesting project for sure. WinGDB is quite similar. From the rationale page: "Large numbers of these developers world-wide use Visual Studio as their primary IDE. Either by preference, or other external factors." I w