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RE: How to create a ksh93 package...
- From: "Karsten Fleischer" <Karsten dot Fleischer at gmx dot de>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:10:40 +0100
- Subject: RE: How to create a ksh93 package...
- Organization: Omnium Software Engineering
- Reply-to: <K dot Fleischer at omnium dot de>
> >And I'm not interested in using the GNU tools anymore on Cygwin,
since
> >I have the AT&T tools now. I'm using them on SunOS, HP-UX, U/Win and
> >now on Cygwin, too.
>
> That's fine, but you realize that this sort of runs counter
> to the purpose of the Cygwin project, right?
Hmm, maybe I see the Cygwin project from another POV.
The Cygwin kernel is most important, the tools users choose are another
thing.
> >I don't know how many people out there would be using them,
> though. Of
> >course they are _not_ a requirement for ksh. I wonder what made you
> >think that?
>
> Scan your eyes upwards to the subject. Notice the lack of plural.
I'm aware of that.
Maybe we should change the subject line.
> You did mention packages in your email but you still kept
> referring to the whole thing as a "package".
The original AT&T thing is a single package.
> Regardless, this isn't what I was asking for. I just asked
> you if you could support ksh. I wasn't expecting a whole
> slew of other things as part of the deal.
OK, I'll support ksh. Nothing else. Not even the stub executables.
Karsten