Re: time to download

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:44:13AM -0500, Erdely, Michael wrote:
>Oh... and downloading the sitecopy source, running "./configure", then
>running "make", then running "make install" worked fine.

And, additionally, Jean, if you have other needs then think about
CONTRIBUTING to the project rather than just sucking up whatever is
available on cygwin.com and sadly sighing when things aren't quite what
you want.

cgf

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Erdely, Michael" <mike@erdelynet.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:37 AM
>Subject: Re: time to download
>
>
>> > I'm the sole Cygwin user in my group, and this thread has touched a
>> > nerve.
>> ????
>>
>> > I heartily second this motion. I'm using sitecopy [1] to maintain a
>> > remote site, and would like to install it for a colleague. I'm compiling
>> > sitecopy from source under Cygwin. However, my colleague would not take
>> > kindly to the idea of a multi-megabyte install for the sake of running
>> > an executable of less than a megabyte.
>> I have no experience with sitecopy, but it's already been ported:
>> http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/cygwin/
>> In general, when you just want to run one Cygwin-ported tool, all you
>really
>> need is the Cygwin1.dll file somewhere in your path and the tool.  Take a
>> look at the bootstrap.zip
>> (ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/latest/bootstrap.zip).
>>
>> > I do appreciate that the likelihood of this happening anytime soon is
>> > not high ..
>> ??????
>>
>> -ME
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jean Jordaan" <Jean@mosaicsoftware.com>
>> To: "Cygwin-L" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:21 AM
>> Subject: RE: time to download
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > --
>> > Jean Jordaan   --    technical writer    --    Mosaic Software
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/
>> >
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