Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:42:29 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: experimental texmf packages Message-ID: <20011206154229.GE22327@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <878764062.20011128173421@nyckelpiga.de> <4434079433.20011129221637@familiehaase.de> <9517228633.20011203135833@familiehaase.de> <3C0D8535.D67735D1@ece.gatech.edu> <3C0EAD6B.AD71A7EB@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:04:22AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Charles Wilson writes: >> That's the thing -- Chris has been offering webspace if folks needed >> it. BUT, you don't even NEED webspace to port a package. Just port it, >> promise to maintain it, and upload it to sourceware. > >Ok, I didn't know that. Feb 1999 I sent this mail: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-02/msg00822.html > >and got no reactions; no questions if I would maintain it; if things >could be uploaded or whatever. So, I just continued scratching my own >itch. Sadly, I don't believe that I was even in charge of the project in Feb 1999. And, since I was ill, and the local Cygnus office was being closed around that time, I probably had other things on my mind. Regardless, it didn't really require me, or anyone else, to make this thing fly. You had a web site. Why didn't people beat a path to your door? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/