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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:42:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: CygUtils website going dark
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From: lars AT segv DOT dk (Lars Munch)

Has run-1.1.4 been included in cygwin? I always this to start rxvt and
would be very sad to see this util disappear.

Regards
Lars Munch

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:24:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> For six years, I've hosted a website for the cygwin free software 
> community.  It began life as http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ where it was 
> the home of one of the first ports of perl to the cygwin platform, and 
> of an update to B20 of Andy Piper's venerable usr-utilities-B19.
> 
> Later, cygutils moved to http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/
> 
> However, last year the neuro.gatech.edu site management was moved to a 
> different department (it's now at 
> http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/ ).  The new site 
> management has more restrictive policies for user accounts, and I can no 
> longer keep multi-megabytes of open-source software there.
> 
> Consequently, within the next week, cygutils will be going down, 
> permanently.  As most of the items that used to reside there are now 
> official parts of the cygwin distribution and are hosted instead on the 
> cygwin mirror system, this comes as no great hardship to the community, 
> I think.  However, there are a number of other items on the site that 
> others may wish to archive (and/or salvage for hosting on their own 
> sites) -- (but not everything! There's a lot of dross and out-of-date 
> stuff there).   Hence, the one-week delay.
> 
> I've attached a list of the entire current contents of the cygutils 
> website.  Of note are the "ADOPT-ME" packages under testing, my cygwin 
> ports of libgeotiff and proj which were ITP'ed but rejected for official 
> inclusion, and a cygwin port of kerboros5.
> 
> Note that cygipc and the "cygutils-package" are also both hosted by this 
> site, even though they are now part of the official cygwin distribution. 
>  I will attempt to find new homes for those two items.
> 
> Don't worry, I won't be disappearing from the cygwin community -- but 
> the cygutils website has served its purpose, and it's time to let it go.
> 
> Oh -- and a final plea: I don't want a ton of people to try to "save" 
> the whole site and hammer ECE's server.  A lot of the cygutils stuff 
> deserves to die; it's old and obsolete and doesn't need saving.  But if 
> some of the items are worthy of preservation, don't everybody download 
> 'em all at once -- be gentle with ECE's server; you've got a whole week.
> 
> --
> Chuck
> 


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