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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:44:46 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: setup wishes -- any volunteers
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In-Reply-To:	<3ABAC557.CE1EAEA8@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:39:03PM -0500

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:39:03PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>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?)
>
>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.

Yeah, that's right.  That wouldn't have stopped people from making an
alternate type of release with tar balls or something.

cgf

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