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RE: whois package


K.  I'm gonna hit the author with some questions, then see what damage I can
do...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:06 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: whois package
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:47:59PM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> >>  From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
> >>  Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:22:40 -0500
> >>  
> >>  I got a couple of notes last week from Chris and Jonathan 
> Kamens suggesting
> >>  bw-whois as the package of choice, but no pro or con list.
> >
> >Well, I gave you some pros and cons, but they focused on meta-issues
> >rather than on the actual functionality of the two packages.  I
> >personally think it's easier to maintain a Perl script than 
> a compiled
> >program, and I don't consider the ability to run in a "stripped down
> >cygwin" is terribly important, but I can see that other people might,
> >which is why I dropped the argument :-).
> >
> >I doubt the functionality of bw-whois is so different from the GNU
> >package you mentioned that it makes much of a difference 
> which one you
> >choose.  So if you're willing to do the work, and you'd rather
> >maintain the GNU version, I think you should go for it.
> 
> That's a 100% ditto from me.
> 
> cgf
> 


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