Cygwin Volunteers (WAS: Re: A request?)

[Rolf Campbell]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>Cygwin is a strange environment.  It has many users and few contributors.
>>>Probably that's because Red Hat is involved and people, unconsciously or
>>>consciously think that somehow Red Hat is or should be footing the bill.
>>>Or, maybe it's because the expertise level isn't high enough since
>>>we're talking about a Windows environment.
>>
>>Well, since you asked (indirectly), I'll give my opinion:
>>
>>There have been several instances when I wanted to try to fix some part
>>of Cygwin myself.  The biggest problem I have is my extreme laziness.  I
>>wish I could just download the 'src' package, configure, make.
>>
>>Could the w32api source be bundled into the source package so we(the
>>royal we) don't have to download some arbitrary version of w32api, and
>>then do some renaming and moving?
> Umm, Rolf, why not build from CVS?  
 > You can checkout with a timestamp if you don't want HEAD...
3 reasons:
1) I've never used cvs.  (not a good reason)
2) Building HEAD can introduce extra problems with updates since the -22 
release.
3) If I did use a time-stamp, which timestamp would I use?  I keep 
hearing people say there's no way to sync to a specific version of 
cygwin cvs.

> P.S. Re: IDontLikePersonalReplies@hotmail.com -- wouldn't a "Reply-To:
> cygwin@cygwin.com" be better?
gmane doesn't allow that.



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