X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <442A3568.9060705@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:21:12 +0700 From: "Alexander J. Herrmann" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll? References: <032520061719.9189.44257B9C0003FD3F000023E522058891160A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <20060325174051.GA9046@brasko.net> <20060325175656.GD14449@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060325213701.GA18453@brasko.net> <4425CCB7.2070406@cygwin.com> <20060328192646.GE9767@brasko.net> <4429A613.8040500@gmail.com> <20060329000745.GA3471@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20060329000745.GA3471@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:09:39AM +0700, Alexander J. Herrmann wrote: > > >>I was following this thread and time will tell. Something you're maybe >>not aware of that the cygwin1.dll soon will be distributed to thousends >>of people who didn't even heard about cygwin. How come? >>You may have heard about BOINC if not take a short look @ >>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ >>It is used to run Linuxcode inside Windoze. For exaple the burp project >>will use it to run povray on windoze. http://burp.boinc.dk (Don't waste >>your time visiting the page it is offline today because a server >>update). I can imagine a lot of problems resulting from this for people >>using cygwin but donate there idle cpu time to number crunching when >>there two different versions. Let's wait and C ... >> >> > >Any problems from this installation should be pretty easily solved by >just blocking all email with the word "boinc" in it. > > I don't think the boinc crowd will post. As I said they don't know that it is used. But I wounder .. aren't they supposed to put all there additional reendering progs which depend on cygwin1.dll into open source? http://cygwin.com/licensing.html >I'm willing to even make the filter more sophisticated than that, if >necessary. > > Look out for the messages with "maybe you're using the wrong version of cygwin1.dll". But people who do cygwin should know. -- And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer. Alexander J. Herrmann Analyst/Programmer http://www.aiengine.org Email: Ping2Weltall@Gmail.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/