From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Yet another GNU-Win32 website... 10 Aug 1998 08:16:19 -0700 Message-ID: <19980810081743.A3692.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Jeff Sturm , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 03:16:39PM -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote: [...] > BTW my initial impressions with this package are: > a) it is excellent quality, compared to even commercial offerings > from Softway and AT&T (I've tried most of them). Glad you like it! My goal is for Cygwin32 to become the Linux of the Windows 9x/NT space. Although we have a few hundred thousand users at this point (estimated), the system will become much more popular if and when many optional packages are easily available/installable. > b) it is horrible for a newcomer to find his way around and tame > it into a nice, useable GNUish package (why no vim, less in the > distribution?) I guess that's why it's beta... I definitely agree this needs to happen somehow. I'm looking into it... > Why doesn't someone build a distribution of cygwin32 configured with > all the goodies, updates, egcs, X11, etc? Well, I can at least say that the next release will include EGCS 1.1. (That's almost for sure). I should have more solid news as to when the next major release will occur in a week or two. -- Geoffrey Noer noer AT cygnus DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".