Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com> Subject: Re: Cygwin Volunteers (WAS: Re: A request?) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:55:19 -0400 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <b7p02s$thn$1@main.gmane.org> References: <b7ns20$jhu$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0304172348160 DOT 27237-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> Reply-To: IDontLikePersonalReplies AT hotmail DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304172348160.27237-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Cygwin is a strange environment. It has many users and few contributors. >>>Probably that's because Red Hat is involved and people, unconsciously or >>>consciously think that somehow Red Hat is or should be footing the bill. >>>Or, maybe it's because the expertise level isn't high enough since >>>we're talking about a Windows environment. >> >>Well, since you asked (indirectly), I'll give my opinion: >> >>There have been several instances when I wanted to try to fix some part >>of Cygwin myself. The biggest problem I have is my extreme laziness. I >>wish I could just download the 'src' package, configure, make. >> >>Could the w32api source be bundled into the source package so we(the >>royal we) don't have to download some arbitrary version of w32api, and >>then do some renaming and moving? > Umm, Rolf, why not build from CVS? > You can checkout with a timestamp if you don't want HEAD... 3 reasons: 1) I've never used cvs. (not a good reason) 2) Building HEAD can introduce extra problems with updates since the -22 release. 3) If I did use a time-stamp, which timestamp would I use? I keep hearing people say there's no way to sync to a specific version of cygwin cvs. > P.S. Re: IDontLikePersonalReplies AT hotmail DOT com -- wouldn't a "Reply-To: > cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" be better? gmane doesn't allow that. -- 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/