X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49654921.4020907@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:30:25 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)? References: <49653425 DOT 3070509 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks. >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. >>> >>> To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So >>> far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're >>> awfully close to what I want. >>> >>> http://www.Cygwin.com/ml/Cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html >> This link goes nowhere for me. > > Doh! My spell-checker capitalized Cygwin. It should be > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html Got it. Looks OK. >> The Cygwin DLL is meant to be backward compatible through the >> 1.5 series. There will, of course, be a difference moving >> from 1.5 to 1.7. After that, later 1.7 releases will be >> compatible with earlier ones. And by compatible, I mean >> binary compatible. No rebuild necessary. If you find this is >> not the case with 1.7, then that would be good to report. >> Since 1.5 is a dead end, it doesn't make allot of sense to >> report these kinds of problems for it. Of course, as you >> note, other packages aren't necessarily compatible through all >> their versions or even their minor version bumps. If you need >> to support a particular set of Cygwin tools, it can make sense >> to lock the set you're working with. Of course, you'll still >> need to contend with users that already may have Cygwin >> installed and the version conflicts there. > > Users who already have Cygwin installed are probably savvy > enough to build the tools from sources. If that doesn't work > then they're out of luck, and should just do things right and > install Linux. > >> And, as you noted, you need to distribute the source of your >> application > > I don't see what my application has to do with anything. Just > because I compile an application with gcc, that doesn't place > the application under the GPL. OK, I missed that part then. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/