Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3ABAC557.CE1EAEA8@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:39:03 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Collins CC: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup wishes -- any volunteers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Collins wrote: > > > The last time it made a difference was where I was forced to delay > > a new net release for almost a year and a half for various silly > > reasons. > > > > cgf > > > > A side-question: could volunteers have made a release during that period > (if they got their act together?) Probably not. AFAIRC, that was back when cygwin was distributed as a monolithic "full.exe" which contained not only cygwin itself, but all of the other packages and utilities. Just too big of a mess for any entity other than cygnus to try and make a release. Now, with the new package structure -- sure, rolling releases (and even "non-sanctioned" binary builds of cygwin itself) are possible. Viva la GPL. --Chuck