Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <007001c09f69$d82798b0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "weaver" Cc: References: Subject: Re: How possible and how easy? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 07:30:48 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2001 20:23:06.0453 (UTC) FILETIME=[C3121050:01C09F68] Well, I got squid up and running in about 2 hours :]. The rest was pretty much a waiting game, waiting for 'quirks' to come to light and then finding solutions. I'd say around 50 - 100 hours spread out over the last 8 months. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "weaver" To: "Robert Collins" Cc: ; Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 5:14 AM Subject: RE: How possible and how easy? > > > > > You might want to consider Exceed or some other commercial X-Server if > > you have a less than knowledgeable user base. > > As to how easy is easy, you won't know until you try. I can speak > > authoritatively for Squid, which is ~1 Mb of tar gzipped source, and > > required under 200 lines of alteration to work smoothly under cygwin in > > most circumstances. I'd like to say all, but not everyone uses squid... > > :] > > > > Rob > > How many man hours would you say went into those alterations? > > Thierry > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple