Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/22/17:22:43
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:19:18AM -0600, Christopher Abbey wrote:
>As some of you may remember last fall I committed to find a port of
>iconv for cygwin, or port an existing impl if I had to. I said I'd do
>it "after the new year". Well, I found one in early January and
>exchanged notes with the author about packaging it up for contribution
>to cygwin. (He had no objections.) In mid January I also got a new job
>assignment... it's 180 degrees different from what I've been doing for
>the last 2 1/2 years - and the BEST part, is that Windows IS NOT
>INVOLVED. I have in the past two weeks exorcised that wretched
>abomination from all but two machines in my collection... and they're
>both dual booting for a couple more weeks. While this is a *very good
>thing* it does mean that I will no longer be using Cygwin. :( I
>wouldn't feel right to offer up a package that I won't be able to
>support, or continue forward, so instead I'll throw this up to the user
>group at large and let some one else take it forward.
Thanks for letting us know about this package, Christopher. I'm sorry
to hear that you're leaving the mailing list. I've appreciated your
contributions here.
Good luck in your Windows-free environment!
cgf
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