Am 29.07.22 um 16:29 schrieb Johannes Schindelin: > Now, I vaguely remember that j6t said that they switched to MSYS2 some > time ago, but all I found on the Git mailing list was > https://lore.kernel.org/git/6c2bbca7-7a8f-d3d8-04b6-31494a3e1b43@xxxxxxxx/ > which says that in 2017, MSys1 was still used by the person who apart from > myself did the most crucial work to support Git on Windows (and that > counts a lot in my book, so in this instance I am willing to bear a bit > more maintenance burden than I otherwise would for a single person, even > if the Windows-specific part of `config.mak.uname` is quite messy, I > admit). > > Hannes, do you still build with MSys1? Thank you for keeping me in the loop. No, I have long since switched to the Git for Windows tool set, i.e., MSYS2 + MinGW64. I don't know if anybody is still using MSys1 + MinGW. There's likely no reason to keep the MSys1 config section. -- Hannes
