Re: Need to know technical support for GnuWin32: FindUtils 4.2.20-2 versions

[Eric Blake]

On 08/30/2017 10:30 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/30/2017 11:19 AM, Ravinder wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Ravinder <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> We are using GnuWin32: FindUtils 4.2.20-2 versions in our project, so
>>> requesting you to know whether the technical support is still giving for
>>> these versions, so that we will plan our project to use the latest version
>>> of GnuWin32: FindUtils.
> 
> You reached the upstream GNU findutils project.  We do not do maintenance on
> older versions here; we just develop/maintain the latest version in source 
> format.
> Maintenance is subject to downstream projects which build and provide the
> binaries/packages of the GNU findutils.  In your case, the software you
> are using is a downstream Windows port which is maintained here [0].
> 
> Actually, it is the same situation as for GNU coreutils you sent the same
> request for several times [1] ...
> 
> [0] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
> [1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/28224

If you want pre-compiled GNU software that runs on Windows, you may be
better off investigating the Cygwin project (https://www.cygwin.com),
which at least has more up-to-date ports than GnuWin32.  But again,
support questions about using Cygwin would be properly directed to the
Cygwin list, not here.

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