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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 18:40:56 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Time for a new DLL release
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> Ron Parker has shown great facility at creating setup programs in record
> time, so if he's volunteering to help, I think it would be great if
> you could collaborate.

Of course. A selfmade GUI rpm installer would be great stuff for the
next release.... as far as it's possible to use it via cmdline as well.

> [...]
> Nah, I'm not bitter either.  I just wrote a Windows editor.  Technical
> support for GUIs is also very hard.
> 
> "Did you click on the File menu?"
> 
> "I don't know what you mean.  I moused your program and it crashed my
> computer."
> [...]

That's like a trip thru the "time tunnel" :-)))
Maybe we will fee a handful of psychiatrists after having released
the GUI. ;-)

Corinna

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