From: morse@harborcom.net ("Kevin Dahlhausen") Subject: Re: questions on bash 10 Dec 1996 16:55:31 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612102000.PAA05324.cygnus.gnu-win32@ns2.harborcom.net> Reply-To: ap096@po.cwru.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Geoffrey Noer wrote: > The gnu-win32 tools as released in public releases to the net > are *not* an officially supported product by any stretch of the > imagination. We do not guarantee that public betas will be well > tested, that we will fix bugs or answer questions, etc... (While I > try to do these things as much as I can, doing so is not my primary > job focus). With this in mind, it is quite conceivable that the net > distributions of the gnu-win32 tools will always be in beta but this > doesn't mean they won't still be useful to people. The gnu-win32 package led me to Cygnus and was considered in our decision to purchase support for the Gnu-Pro tool chain. I can probably justify purchasing it in the future quite easily. It does provide such a good development environment, even in beta. Maybe this will help your powers-that-be in their decision to formally support your efforts? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Dahlhausen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMO Industries, ap096@po.cwru.edu Morse Controls Division Do or do not. There is no 'Try.' Yoda - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".