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Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:09:39AM +0700, Alexander J. Herrmann wrote:
>  
>
>>I was following this thread and time will tell. Something you're maybe 
>>not aware of  that the cygwin1.dll soon will be distributed to thousends 
>>of people who didn't even heard about cygwin. How come?
>>You may have heard about BOINC if not take a short look @ 
>>http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
>>It is used to run Linuxcode inside Windoze. For exaple the burp project 
>>will use it to run povray on windoze. http://burp.boinc.dk (Don't waste 
>>your time visiting the page it is offline today because a server 
>>update). I can imagine a lot of problems resulting from this for people 
>>using cygwin but donate there idle cpu time to number crunching when 
>>there two different versions. Let's wait and C ...
>>    
>>
>
>Any problems from this installation should be pretty easily solved by
>just blocking all email with the word "boinc" in it.
>  
>
I don't think the boinc crowd will post. As I said they don't know that 
it is used. But I wounder .. aren't they supposed to put all there 
additional reendering progs which depend on cygwin1.dll into open 
source? http://cygwin.com/licensing.html

>I'm willing to even make the filter more sophisticated than that, if
>necessary.
>  
>
Look out for the messages with "maybe you're using the wrong version of  
cygwin1.dll". But people who do cygwin should know.

-- 
And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

Alexander J. Herrmann
Analyst/Programmer
http://www.aiengine.org
Email: Ping2Weltall AT Gmail DOT com


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