Hello Fred,

Fred Christiansen <fred_christiansen@...> wrote:

FC> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>> Decision to do the relocation of list to
>> sourceforge was made by current admins of Mingw project, see
>> http://sourceforge.net/mingw/ for who's who.

FC> I 'spect you meant http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw (which is, I see,

     Yes, sorry.

FC> distinct from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep ; the mingw32
compiler
FC> vs libraries (et al) compiled with mingw32).

     True too. The latter is simply my personal project, the former is
official Mingw created by Mumit Khan. With luck, mine will become part of
it.

> I note there's also http://mingw.sourceforge.net as well as
> http://mingwrep.sourceforge.net .  The content is different, of course,
> so there's an operational difference.  If one were to be referring a
> colleague to one of the URL's for the mingw32 compiler, why might one
> refer to mingw.sourceforge.net vs sourceforge.net/projects/mingw ?

   URLs starting with http://sourceforge.net/projects/ are standard
SourceForge group pages. From there, services and resources like full
file list, CVS browse, bug and patch tracking, statistics, etc., are
directly accessible. So they are of interest to developers,
contributors or just active users. http://<projname>.sourceforge.net
is project home page which of free form content, usually containg
project information "in plain words", so they are of interest to the
rest of the world. There is also 'www.mingw.org' domain which is
technically alias for mingw.sourceforge.net (but of course, can be
made point somewhere other when needed).

   So, if someone referring colleague to /projects/... one's probably
indirectly motivating him to consider contributing, I guess;
referrence to www.mingw.org doesn't have such connotation ;-)

FC> --
FC> Fred Christiansen, a Canajan (Eh?) in Idaho
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