An irritated cygwin newbie

[Heribert Dahms]

Hi Chris,

I guess you want to avoid making binaries and packaging them
with InstallShield for every release. Maybe you want to split
into a small installshielded bootstrapping mingw-based stable
crossgcc and a plain cygwin source only tarball?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Faylor [SMTP:cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 19, 1999 01:42
> To:	Jon M. Taylor
> Cc:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Re: An irritated cygwin newbie
> 
> [Heribert]  [snip]
>  
> 3) AFAIK, EGCS provides only sources for *you* to compile.  Cygwin
> provides
>    binaries which are installed via InstallShield.  It's a minor
> matter,
>    but I'd be happy to release B21 as a source-code only distribution.
>    It would simplify things greatly.  I doubt that that would be
> acceptable
>    to many people.
> 
> [Heribert]  [snip
> 

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