X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 01:31:01 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: distributing executables for windows Message-ID: <20110304063101.GA13985@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D6FC57F DOT 7000406 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D6FC57F.7000406@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:44:47AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 3/3/2011 3:10 AM, anctop wrote: >>2. The "less" executable distributed by the GnuWin32 project depends >>only on a single external library "libpcre", is this possible with >>cygwin ? > >Anything is possible. Shall cygwin's less.exe be changed in this >manner? > >I'm not the less maintainer, but I can almost guarantee the answer is >"No." You're prescient. "No" This would exactly contradict the whole point of the project. But, then, if you want something like this and GnuWin32 (I never have understood why RMS doesn't come down on these folks since he hates to see the word GNU and WIN put together) then just use that! It's an amazingly simple solution. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple