Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT
com> wrote:
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<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>  Thanks.

>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*].
>>>
>>> To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So
>>> far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're
>>> awfully close to what I want.
>>>
>>>   http://www.Cygwin.com/ml/Cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html
>> This link goes nowhere for me.
> 
> Doh!  My spell-checker capitalized Cygwin.  It should be
> 
>   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html

Got it.  Looks OK.

>> The Cygwin DLL is meant to be backward compatible through the
>> 1.5 series.  There will, of course, be a difference moving
>> from 1.5 to 1.7.  After that, later 1.7 releases will be
>> compatible with earlier ones.  And by compatible, I mean
>> binary compatible.  No rebuild necessary.  If you find this is
>> not the case with 1.7, then that would be good to report.
>> Since 1.5 is a dead end, it doesn't make allot of sense to
>> report these kinds of problems for it.  Of course, as you
>> note, other packages aren't necessarily compatible through all
>> their versions or even their minor version bumps.  If you need
>> to support a particular set of Cygwin tools, it can make sense
>> to lock the set you're working with.  Of course, you'll still
>> need to contend with users that already may have Cygwin
>> installed and the version conflicts there.
> 
> Users who already have Cygwin installed are probably savvy
> enough to build the tools from sources.  If that doesn't work
> then they're out of luck, and should just do things right and
> install Linux.
> 
>> And, as you noted, you need to distribute the source of your
>> application
> 
> I don't see what my application has to do with anything.  Just
> because I compile an application with gcc, that doesn't place
> the application under the GPL.

OK, I missed that part then.

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