From: hgfernan AT usp DOT br (Hilton Fernandes) Subject: Life from ashes (was Re: Saying things straight...) 23 Dec 1998 21:20:16 -0800 Message-ID: <199812231653.OAA17158.cygnus.gnu-win32@swan2.uspnet.usp.br> References: <75n9d0$i6u$1 AT cronkite DOT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: HGFERNAN AT usp DOT br On 22 Dec 98 at 5:06, Christopher G. Faylor wrote: > Several > people apparently did not take the remark as a wry comment and responded > in a defensive way, this being Usenet (essentially) and all... Usually persons that start a flame war look very adolescent -- and they probably are. To engage in the flame war is an even more teenage thing. :-) Maybe the original poster just wants to receive attention of others, and if you engage in the war you're playing his or her game. This is what i thought about the last -- or so i hope :-) -- flame war in this group. However, it looked even more agressive than the previous ones i saw in gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > I'm sorry that it is not convenient for you to download 24M of sources. > We are actually talking about packaging things in a way to make > individual software components more accessible. We're also talking > about providing Cygwin on CD-ROM. This is the most important result of the last flame war: Cygnus will distribute Cygwin in smaller packages. Maybe DJ Delorie, of DJGPP fame, has some influence in this, as DJGPP is distributed in nicely sized zip files. In order to avoid "what package am i missing" questions, maybe a more intelligent format like RedHat's .rpm or Debian's .deb could be used. In any case, this is very good news, and indeed looks like a phoenix thing, that strange bird that comes back to life after being burnt. :-) Peace! Merry Christmas for all. Hilton ---- Hilton Fernandes hgfernan AT usp DOT br hfernandes AT geocities DOT com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5657 URLs and help on C++ programming and Object-Oriented Design - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".