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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:33:00 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: mingw-zlib-1.1.4-4
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:18:01PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:30:08AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>I don't mean to speak for Chuck but, after some discussion, it's
>>>>intended to be a separate package.  The intent was to not put a zlib
>>>>directory in winsup, which would be the case with mingw-runtime.  Ditto
>>>>for the gcc sources.
>>>
>>>So basically this means that everyone wanting to compile Cygwin from
>>>CVS or source tarball will have to install this package, right?
>>
>>If they want this functionality, yes.
>
>Yes.  Currently, the package is in the 'Mingw' group (for lack of
>anything better).

Tsk, tsk.  I didn't notice that you invented a new category.

I don't see any reason why this should just be in Libs.  It's a mingw
library but, since we don't make the Mingw distinction for anything
else, I don't know why zlib should be different.  The description
should be adequate, IMO.

Note that cygcheck will still compile and link without this libarary.
You'll get a warning and the resultant program won't be able to access
the package files.

cgf

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