Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/01/21/17:06:16
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 kunglao AT prairienet DOT org wrote:
>
> I like the idea of first trying this as a series of newsgroups on a
> small server, perhaps at cygnus.com, before joining it to the comp.*
> hierarchy. Then we can experiment with splitting it into different
> newsgroups to best sort the posts.
>
> This will keep the readers/posters to basically whoever's on this
> mail list, and we wouldn't have the general "How about making Linux
> for Win95?" type posts :).
>
The ideal solution would maybe be to automatically forward the messages
to a local (again, as opposed to global) newsgroup and vice versa while
maintaining the mailing list. That should keep everyone happy, but I don't
know if it's practical.
I myself probably don't have a say in this though as I will stick to
the announce list soon (I don't have any Unix programs to port so
90% of the traffic is irrelevant). But for those who say 'the stated
objective' would be to provide a Unix environment I suggest rereading
the Web page, it says that it's a Win32 compiler even before it being
a Unix environment. And for those who say 'why not use VC++' I could
as well ask 'why not use NutCracker/OpenNT/[put your commercial
environment here]' (personally I simply dislike it). Not that I disagree
with it being a Unix environment primarily now that there is mingw32,
but it remains attached to the main project at least for now.
cj
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