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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:01:32PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>The Home Page <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> has a "Software"
>section on the lower half of the page on the right.  The most recent
>software listed there, "SaVi 1.2.8", is dated "Jan 5 2006".  That seems
>rather stale to me; it might give people considering cygwin the very
>incorrect impression that not much is happening with it.
>
>Also, on the "Porting Programs to Win32 with Cygwin" Page
><http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ported.html>, the following seem to
>have been since been made into official packages.  One might consider
>whether it would be appropriate to de-list them.  - cadaver - GNU
>screen - Singular - TeXmacs
>
>Just an observation for your consideration - not a request.  I know you
>all have a lot more than this going on.

I've been meaning to nuke that section entirely since the only thing
that gets added there these days is either spam or exciting new
announcements of the type of "I try run ssh.  Why say it connection
refused?"

I'll get rid of the ported software link though at least.

cgf

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