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List:       mingw-users
Subject:    Re: [Mingw-users] Is anybody interesting in new msys?
From:       Earnie Boyd <earnie () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2013-01-11 20:15:15
Message-ID: CA+sc5mnTLs3xGmHSbXcGmFQQ4B+jMU9JWCqAekLHFqcnuakDsw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, C. Thomas Stover wrote:
> Out of curiosity, is there an archived mailing list thread or something
> to give some background on the original motivation for forking cygwin
> in the first place?

The motivation is listed on the front page at http://www.mingw.org/.
I created it because I wanted a build environment that touted itself
to be mingw32 and would modify the POSIX paths to Windows equivalent
so that a native tools would be able to accept a path argument and
execute on it.

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