[osgeo4w-dev] Re: OSGeo4W Governance

[Frank Warmerdam]

Matt Wilkie wrote:
> The unspoken thought/question running in the background was whether the kind
> of work you want to do might have already been done, at least in part, by
> cygwin; e.g. skip reinventing wheels that don't have to be. The new stuff,
> that I see, in cygwin 1.7 setup isn't in the same arena though.

Matt,

I feel it would be fairly difficult and risky to try and merge new features
from the cygwin setup into OSGeo4W's setup code.  It is changed quite a bit
and is very fragile.

Best regards,
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