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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:40:58 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies
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In-Reply-To: <VA.0000083b.01cee3bd@thesoftwaresource.com>; from bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:32:52PM -0400

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:32:52PM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
>John Wiersba wrote:
>>As Brian Keener implied in his email, I don't really want to spend a
>>huge amount of time just getting setup to successfully build the
>>source, before I can even start to contribute.  I routinely build perl
>>and quite a few GNU packages on AIX, SunOS, HP/UX and linux, but all of
>>them build relatively cleanly out-of-the-box with only minor tweaking.
>
>I think part of this is as Chris stated - maybe I over mystified some
>of the problems I had/have and the step involved in being a contributor
>or maybe it was/is my total lack of C++ programming on any platform and
>cygwin knowledge before getting started.  As a total newcomer to C++
>that found Cygwin very appealing and not having worked with anything
>using a make or a makefile since a little bit of C work - getting
>started on Cygwin was a challenge.  I guess I just bit off too much to
>start with

Well, as a total newcomer, you made some amazing contributions to
setup.exe so I'm very happy that you signed on.

cgf

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