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Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:09:39AM +0700, Alexander J. Herrmann wrote: > > >>I was following this thread and time will tell. Something you're maybe >>not aware of that the cygwin1.dll soon will be distributed to thousends >>of people who didn't even heard about cygwin. How come? >>You may have heard about BOINC if not take a short look @ >>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ >>It is used to run Linuxcode inside Windoze. For exaple the burp project >>will use it to run povray on windoze. http://burp.boinc.dk (Don't waste >>your time visiting the page it is offline today because a server >>update). I can imagine a lot of problems resulting from this for people >>using cygwin but donate there idle cpu time to number crunching when >>there two different versions. Let's wait and C ... >> >> > >Any problems from this installation should be pretty easily solved by >just blocking all email with the word "boinc" in it. > > I don't think the boinc crowd will post. As I said they don't know that it is used. But I wounder .. aren't they supposed to put all there additional reendering progs which depend on cygwin1.dll into open source? http://cygwin.com/licensing.html >I'm willing to even make the filter more sophisticated than that, if >necessary. > > Look out for the messages with "maybe you're using the wrong version of cygwin1.dll". But people who do cygwin should know. -- And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer. Alexander J. Herrmann Analyst/Programmer http://www.aiengine.org Email: Ping2Weltall AT Gmail DOT com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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