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Re: Cygwin Volunteers (WAS: Re: A request?)


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
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...
3 reasons:
1) I've never used cvs. (not a good reason)
2) Building HEAD can introduce extra problems with updates since the -22 release.
3) If I did use a time-stamp, which timestamp would I use? I keep hearing people say there's no way to sync to a specific version of cygwin cvs.


P.S. Re: IDontLikePersonalReplies at hotmail dot com -- wouldn't a "Reply-To:
cygwin at cygwin dot com" be better?
gmane doesn't allow that.



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