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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:27:06 -0500
From: Alan Dobkin <Cygwin AT OmniComp DOT Org>
To: Cygwin Mailing List <Cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Modular setup?
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--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:39 AM -0500 Christopher Faylor 
<cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> Since I haven't formally announced this, I will certainly be displeased
> to see any bug reports about it.  There is a reason why this isn't part
> of the cygwin distribution.  It requires too much tweaking to get right
> and I don't have the time or patience to add YA stream of newbie
> questions to my life.
>
> That said, however, the Setup pm files are the same as are used by the
> (also unreleased) 'upset' script:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/infra/bin/cygwin/Cygwin/?cvs
> root=sourceware
>
> But, you are on your own with this.  I am not going to support it
> in terms of setting things up, or adding requested functionality.
> I may eventually work out all of the kinks and release it but
> I'm not interested in having users for the package until then.
>
> cgf

Thanks for the pointer.  I already assumed everything you said regarding
no support for the time being.  Perhaps I shouldn't have opened up this
can of worms on the list, but I know how everyone hates to get personal
e-mail.  In any case, I will grab the perl module and give it a whirl.

Aside from bug reports, would you be willing to consider patches
if I were so inclined to work out some of the kinks for you?

Alan

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