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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:25:36 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Hallo Carl,

2001-12-07 16:24:07, du schriebst:

> I'm interested in being the package maintainer for figlet.  The latest
> version is 2.2 and was released in 1996 (and so I can't realistically see it
> being updated again).  I have already compiled the source and created a
> tar.bz2 of the binaries/docs/etc and I've created what I /think/ is a good
> setup.hints file.

> First question.  Is anyone interested in actually having figlet for Cygwin?

> Next, does someone want to check that what I've done is correct, and maybe
> hold my hand a little in getting my first package into Cygwin (since I've
> not done it before)?

> If all goes well with this then I would certainly be interested in being the
> package maintainer for other packages, since I like Cygwin a lot (home from
> home you could say, being a Linux person who's forced to use Windows at
> work).

> Any help would be appreciated.

Is there a possibility to load it down (your sources and binaries) to test it?
If not please mail me a copy.

Gerrit
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