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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:33:36 -0500
To: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>, "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Apology
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At 01:28 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Hall 
>> Sent: 15 November 2004 18:18
>
>> At 01:04 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Darkfalz
>> >> Sent: 15 November 2004 17:57
>> >> To: cygwin
>> >> Subject: Apology
>> >> 
>> >> Sorry about that last email, really. Please stop sending me abuse.
>> >
>> >
>> >  OK, since you've been big enough to apologise, let me 
>> point out that there
>> >already is a way to just get a recent up-to-date 
>> cygwin1.dll, in a zip file,
>> >more or less exactly what you wanted:
>> >
>> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots
>> 
>> 
>> Ugh!  I was hoping somebody wasn't going to point to that.  
>
>
>> rightly or wrongly).  Obviously all of us who know about 
>> snapshots (and it's not like they are 
>> hidden or anything - there's a link to them on the main page) 
>> know that they are moving targets representing ongoing 
>> development.  These are *not* the 
>> same as the release versions available via 'setup.exe'.  And 
>> they come with
>> no list support.  If someone is willing to work with a random 
>> snapshot DLL, 
>> then this is the place to get it.  If however they are 
>> looking for just 
>> 'cygwin1.dll' that is synonymous with the released version, 
>> they have to 
>> pull that themselves from the 'cygwin' package in 'setup.exe'.
>
>  Thanks for clarifying and enlarging on what I meant by "more or less"!  Having
>said that, the cygwin dll is fairly stable, and by cunningly choosing a snapshot
>close enough in time to a release date, you're liable to get pretty much the
>same compiled codebase in it.


Right, though that assumes the interested party has some idea what they are
doing and what they are looking for.  Surprisingly, both you and I understand
this. ;-)  I just wanted to offer the word of caution to those who aren't
as sure.  Anyway, I'm done beating this dead horse.


>> So I guess that leads us back to <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>.
>
>  Doesn't everything?


Yeah, I guess you're right.  It's an awful state of affairs... ;-)


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