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Re: Cygwin Volunteers (WAS: Re: A request?)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Volunteers (WAS: Re: A request?)
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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...
Igor
P.S. Re: IDontLikePersonalReplies at hotmail dot com -- wouldn't a "Reply-To:
cygwin at cygwin dot com" be better?
Igor
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