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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 11:46:32 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygipc packaging was Updated setup.ini with descriptions, categories, and dependencies
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:32:53PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>pro integrating
>3. Chris wrote:
>>IIRC, the original "authors" got the code from the linux kernel
>>so they couldn't actually assign anything.
>What's than the problem to take this code and integrate it ? Who can made a
>decision ?

Please look at the Contributing link at http://cygwin.com/ .  If you
can't fill out an assignment form, the work cannot be integrated with
Cygwin.  It's that simple.

It's not my decision but I have to enforce it.

I have my famous "mixed feelings" about including the cygipc package as
a downloadable option for cygwin.  If people are accustomed to thinking
that it is part of cygwin, I think that the incentive for writing our
own daemon is going to be much less.  And, we really do need our own
daemon for doing a lot of things.

So, my feeling is that cygipc should not be included by default.
However, I am willing to be swayed in this decision if the other
developers think that it really would be a good idea to include it.  To
be clear -- we can't release it as part of cygwin itself but we could
release it as a separate package.

cgf