[osgeo4w-dev] Re: OSGeo4W Governance

[Jeff McKenna]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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.
> 

I feel the same way, I'd rather not start from scratch again.

-jeff