How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable translation

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed Apr 4 15:37:00 GMT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable
translation


> Robert Collins said:
> >It's a low priority because, out of a user base of thousands (Chris ,
> >do you have any rough count?  ), only 1 user has reported this as a
> >nice thing to have - you.
>
> 883 subscribers to the cygwin mailing list
> 295 subscribers to the cygwin-digest mailing list
> 2254 subscribers to the cygwin-announce mailing list
>
> Cygwin downloads averaged 28GB a month prior to turning off downloads
> from sources.redhat.com.

Not bad. Not bad at all!

> We estimate total downloads of cygwin itself to be in the millions.

Do you mind me asking: what does RedHat officially think of the Net
releases?

> To be fair, I think a couple of people indicated that they wanted this
> feature.  You correctly summarized the realities in your message,
though
> Robert.
>
> Thank you so much for consistently "getting it".
>
> cgf
>

Thank you.

Rob


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