CygUtils website going dark

[Charles Wilson]

For six years, I've hosted a website for the cygwin free software 
community.  It began life as http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ where it was 
the home of one of the first ports of perl to the cygwin platform, and 
of an update to B20 of Andy Piper's venerable usr-utilities-B19.

Later, cygutils moved to http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/

However, last year the neuro.gatech.edu site management was moved to a 
different department (it's now at 
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/ ).  The new site 
management has more restrictive policies for user accounts, and I can no 
longer keep multi-megabytes of open-source software there.

Consequently, within the next week, cygutils will be going down, 
permanently.  As most of the items that used to reside there are now 
official parts of the cygwin distribution and are hosted instead on the 
cygwin mirror system, this comes as no great hardship to the community, 
I think.  However, there are a number of other items on the site that 
others may wish to archive (and/or salvage for hosting on their own 
sites) -- (but not everything! There's a lot of dross and out-of-date 
stuff there).   Hence, the one-week delay.

I've attached a list of the entire current contents of the cygutils 
website.  Of note are the "ADOPT-ME" packages under testing, my cygwin 
ports of libgeotiff and proj which were ITP'ed but rejected for official 
inclusion, and a cygwin port of kerboros5.

Note that cygipc and the "cygutils-package" are also both hosted by this 
site, even though they are now part of the official cygwin distribution. 
  I will attempt to find new homes for those two items.

Don't worry, I won't be disappearing from the cygwin community -- but 
the cygutils website has served its purpose, and it's time to let it go.

Oh -- and a final plea: I don't want a ton of people to try to "save" 
the whole site and hammer ECE's server.  A lot of the cygutils stuff 
deserves to die; it's old and obsolete and doesn't need saving.  But if 
some of the items are worthy of preservation, don't everybody download 
'em all at once -- be gentle with ECE's server; you've got a whole week.

--
Chuck

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