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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:04:45PM +0200, David Fraser wrote:Fine, but at least we can have arguments about it :-)
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:OK thats fine, just a minor point: there is one Cygwin problem that
In any event
Sorry. This message obviously slipped out before I was done with it. I blame my spastic index finger. It likes to press the "y" key.
In any event, what I was going to say above was that "In any event" it is certainly possible to craft a Cygwin/X installation which only installs a minimal number of packages. No one has stepped forward to do this.
Many of the observations made here are fixable just by having someone
step forward to do the work in Cygwin. If no one is willing to do that,
that's fine. You can do related work elsewhere but touting MinGW
programs as a solution to Cygwin problems doesn't work.
this solves, which is that people keep on requesting this kind of thing
on the cygwin-xfree mailing list :-)
Yes, and people keep requesting that Cygwin shouldn't be GPLed because it is inconvenient for them. People ask for "su" to work correctly. People occasionally want to discuss Xceed here, too.
This isn't a "ill-informed minority gets to decide" mailing list.
I use MinGW the whole time, yes, I know what it is.Also its constructed from the same source code as cygwin/X so its arguably the same thing.
Is anyone here *at all* familiar with MinGW? Apparently few of you are
or you wouldn't be making arguments like this. Much of MinGW is based
on the same source code as what Cygwin uses.
Using this logic, since Cygwin/X is based on the same source code thatOK fine :-)
runs on many different platforms, apparently we should just shut this
mailing list down and move everyone over to the main Xorg mailing lists.
Yes, you see I've managed to generate an extra 3 useless emails!But anyway we'll happy carry on discussion on a different listBut not before trying to get off a few more shots, eh?
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