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Re: spotting cygwin ml trends

From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni at netscape dot net>
To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:47:40 -0700
Subject: Re: spotting cygwin ml trends
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

Right.  I'm theorizing that cygwin's popularity is widening and we're coming
in contact with more of them.

And the fix is obvious, of course: hardcode everything everywhere in Cygwin. None of this weenie registry/Path crap. Make it a completely closed system, released once every 6 years, with "security updates" every 3 months (or so..).

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