CygUtils site moved (again)

[Charles Wilson]

Tales of a Wandering Website...

CygUtils has been moved to http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ thanks to the 
generosity of Peter Castro.  I've also moved cygutils-package and 
auto-wrapper "homepages" to Peter's server, and set up redirects at the 
old locations.

CygUtils was originally established at http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ 
where it hosted a large set of non-core GNU utilities for Cygwin B20.1, 
inspired by Andy Piper's earlier collection for Cygwin B19.  During this 
period, CygUtils also hosted one of the ealiest ports of perl to the 
cygwin platform.

Mysteriously, netpedia.net went flatline with no warning during the 
holidays in 2000/2001.  So, the site was resurrected at
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/
as detailed in this announcement.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg00106.html

This was hosted on a machine I actually controlled for the neuro 
department at GT, so life was good.  For a while.

During this period, the new "setup.exe"-based installation began to 
form, and many of the packages previously hosted on CygUtils actually 
became official packages in the cygwin distribution, and were thus 
"hosted" by the cygwin mirror system and removed from CygUtils.  As this 
happened, CygUtils -- once a cygwin "household name" (cited in the 
AutoBook among others) -- gradually faded in importance.  Today, it 
serves mainly as a historical repository, a place for me to test new 
versions of my official packages, and host to a few tools that are not 
worth the effort to turn into official packages.

Plus the ADOPT-ME area (http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/testing/ADOPT-ME/ ) 
where I've created some "official"-like packages that I'd LOVE for 
someone else adopt, and assume maintainership of and push into the 
official set...like kerboros, GNU plotutils, pstoepsi, netpbm, ...)

Anyway, returning to our wandering website, about two years later an 
administrative decision was made to eliminate the neuro server, and 
migrate its data to one of the "official" department webservers. 
Unfortunately, I didn't control the official servers, and suddenly was 
subject to various policies and bureaucratese that previously didn't apply.

Things like "all mp3 files are obviously pirated (even if you recorded 
them yourself at your band's practice with a microphone) and must be 
removed." and Bill-Gatesian dicta like "nobody will ever need more than 
10MB of web space".

Things went from bad to worse, until finally I was absolutely unable to 
keep the CygUtils site running under those restrictions -- and Peter 
made the generous offer to host the site at its new home.

    http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/

Thanks, Peter!

--
Chuck

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