RE: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies

[John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>]

So, is the "download source" option for setup.exe useful for anything?  Can
you rebuild (all of) cygwin from it?  What I mean is:  there are these 80+
packages available with setup.exe.  If I download the source for all of
them, install the source somewhere, run some build process against it, will
I end up with a working cygwin which is functionally equivalent to the
binary packages I downloaded using setup.exe?

-- John Wiersba

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:34:30PM -0400, John Wiersba wrote:
> >OK, given the "new spirit of cooperation" expressed in cgf's 
> email, I'd
> >like to be in a position to help, too, in the sense of 
> "submit patches"
> >rather than "find bugs, suggest new features".  But there's primarily
> >one thing stopping me: a test environment.  I'm currently ignorant of
> >how to effectively use cvs and I don't have much burning 
> desire to add
> >csv to my personal toolkit right now.
> 
> Well, just to backslide a little: http://cygwin.com/contrib.html ,
> http://cygwin.com/cvs.html .
> 
> Or, more generically http://cygwin.com/ .
> 
> cgf
> 
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