From: cjjohans AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi (Carl J R Johansson) Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group 23 Jan 1997 21:17:24 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cjjohans AT vesuri DOT Helsinki DOT FI Original-To: Jim Balter Original-cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <32E6D700.386E@netcom.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Jim Balter wrote: > Carl J R Johansson wrote: > > > None of the people asking to do this or that to cygwin has offered to > > > pony up any money or time (except for one fellow who offered his help to > > > Colin Peters). Given that, I think the response "then use VC++" is > > > quite a reasonable one. > > > > > Not everyone is experienced enough to be able to contribute in a > > meaningul manner. I thought that was obvious. > > That's totally irrelevant; the point is that, if you don't like the > direction that cygnus is going, you can go out and *pay* for something > else. Meanwhile, the rest of us who need and want a total GNU-like > environment because there *isn't any alternative* are rather pleased > that cygwin is focusing on that, thank you very much. > How was this port created? To my knowledge by cross-compiling from Linux, a dual-boot system is not too uncommon to my knowledge. Again you are putting words in my mouth. You may recall that I said originally I agree with the current priorities, but I thought the porting of bash & co was irrelevant to porting programs. Apparently I was wrong about that. What I am objecting to is your apparent suggestions that porting Unix should be the _only_ focus, I think we can leave that to Cygnus to decide. You also appear to be saying thay there is demand only for that, has it occured to you that not much else has been implemented yet so naturally there is more questions about it? cj - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".