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Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:41:41 -0500
From:	Glenn Spell <glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us>
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Subject:	Re: next net release preview
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In-Reply-To:	<200002240110.UAA11995@envy.delorie.com>; from "DJ Delorie" on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 08:10PM
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On 23 Feb 2000 around 8:10PM (-0500) DJ Delorie wrote:

> I do, however, expect that people working on a port discuss what
> they're doing on the developers list and manage to give everyone
> a warm and fuzzy feeling that the resulting port will be OK,
> including doing at least some testing, maybe a few pre-releases,
> that kind of stuff.

That makes sense, except...

I've had the impression for some time as a result of something I
read (don't remember the particulars) that the developers list was
only for discussing cygwin core issues and the discussion of porting
issues was off topic for the developers list.

Perhaps we'll need a "ports" list. <g>

-glenn

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