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RE: An irritated cygwin newbie
- To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>, "Jon M. Taylor" <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
- Subject: RE: An irritated cygwin newbie
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 02:12:32 +0200
Hi Chris,
I guess you want to avoid making binaries and packaging them
with InstallShield for every release. Maybe you want to split
into a small installshielded bootstrapping mingw-based stable
crossgcc and a plain cygwin source only tarball?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [SMTP:cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 01:42
> To: Jon M. Taylor
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: An irritated cygwin newbie
>
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
> 3) AFAIK, EGCS provides only sources for *you* to compile. Cygwin
> provides
> binaries which are installed via InstallShield. It's a minor
> matter,
> but I'd be happy to release B21 as a source-code only distribution.
> It would simplify things greatly. I doubt that that would be
> acceptable
> to many people.
>
> [Heribert] [snip
>
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