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Reini Urban wrote:

> Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
> sponsors for supporting this project. Our next release is 20 January
> 2009, where all the cygwin patches will be merged into trunk. Until then
> cygwin is still the only parrot release which works without the source
> tree.

Wow. Just...wow! Cygwin -- as a development platform -- supports parrot
features that no other platform supports! (Sure, they are
build/infrastructure features and not end-user-visible ones, but still...)

Let's hear it for Reini and the other cygwin/parrot contributors!

--
Chuck

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