X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <496A8245.7030804@x-ray.at> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:35:33 +0100 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-0.8.2-1 with parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages References: <49594432 DOT 7000205 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> In-Reply-To: <49594432.7000205@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Charles Wilson schrieb: > Reini Urban wrote: > >> Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our >> sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 20 January >> 2009, where all the cygwin patches will be merged into trunk. Until then >> cygwin is still the only parrot release which works without the source >> tree. > > Wow. Just...wow! Cygwin -- as a development platform -- supports parrot > features that no other platform supports! (Sure, they are > build/infrastructure features and not end-user-visible ones, but still...) > > Let's hear it for Reini and the other cygwin/parrot contributors! Unfortunately my big 405kb src patch still didn't make it the next release on January 20, only parts of it. But then at least other packagers get a little bit of more core support of being installable. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- 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/