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 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:44:01 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup wishes -- any volunteers Message-ID: <20010322224401.A23530@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:11:23PM +1100 On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:11:23PM +1100, 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. > >A side-question: could volunteers have made a release during that >period (if they got their act together?) Sure. It's free software. There was one attempt to create a distribution with a snapshot and other updated packages. Cygwin Mahogany? I can't remember. It had some kind of wood motif. You could, also, of course, create your own setup.exe fork and do whatever you want with apt. Hopefully you won't do this. :-) cgf