Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:10:20 +0200 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.00 Christmas Preview) UNREG Reply-To: Paul Sokolovsky Message-ID: <2965.990224@is.lg.ua> To: Christopher Faylor , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re[2]: Cygwin participation threshold References: <19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Christopher, Christopher Faylor wrote: CF> But, of course, maybe none of these observations matter. We're talking CF> about perceptions, here. It's my contention that if the EGCS project CF> had been named 'cyg-gcc' that it probably wouldn't have as large a base CF> of contributors. It's probably the initial 'cyg' which is off putting CF> to people as well as the technical barrier of having to know both UNIX CF> and Windows code. By the way, if you haven't answered that yet, changing name from gnu-win32 to cygwin has your motivation or FSF's? CF> cgf Best regards, Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com