Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/06/07/04:42:51
Has run-1.1.4 been included in cygwin? I always this to start rxvt and
would be very sad to see this util disappear.
Regards
Lars Munch
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:24:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> For six years, I've hosted a website for the cygwin free software
> community. It began life as http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ where it was
> the home of one of the first ports of perl to the cygwin platform, and
> of an update to B20 of Andy Piper's venerable usr-utilities-B19.
>
> Later, cygutils moved to http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/
>
> However, last year the neuro.gatech.edu site management was moved to a
> different department (it's now at
> http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/ ). The new site
> management has more restrictive policies for user accounts, and I can no
> longer keep multi-megabytes of open-source software there.
>
> Consequently, within the next week, cygutils will be going down,
> permanently. As most of the items that used to reside there are now
> official parts of the cygwin distribution and are hosted instead on the
> cygwin mirror system, this comes as no great hardship to the community,
> I think. However, there are a number of other items on the site that
> others may wish to archive (and/or salvage for hosting on their own
> sites) -- (but not everything! There's a lot of dross and out-of-date
> stuff there). Hence, the one-week delay.
>
> I've attached a list of the entire current contents of the cygutils
> website. Of note are the "ADOPT-ME" packages under testing, my cygwin
> ports of libgeotiff and proj which were ITP'ed but rejected for official
> inclusion, and a cygwin port of kerboros5.
>
> Note that cygipc and the "cygutils-package" are also both hosted by this
> site, even though they are now part of the official cygwin distribution.
> I will attempt to find new homes for those two items.
>
> Don't worry, I won't be disappearing from the cygwin community -- but
> the cygutils website has served its purpose, and it's time to let it go.
>
> Oh -- and a final plea: I don't want a ton of people to try to "save"
> the whole site and hammer ECE's server. A lot of the cygutils stuff
> deserves to die; it's old and obsolete and doesn't need saving. But if
> some of the items are worthy of preservation, don't everybody download
> 'em all at once -- be gentle with ECE's server; you've got a whole week.
>
> --
> Chuck
>
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