From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a2955b0d0322a323 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-20 05:43:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ot] making stuff Date: 20 Jul 2002 05:43:49 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0207200443.33d1ef1f@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1027169029 30290 127.0.0.1 (20 Jul 2002 12:43:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jul 2002 12:43:49 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27273 Date: 2002-07-20T12:43:49+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote in message news:... > "chris.danx" writes: > Of course, if you're distributing code to miscellaneous folks who may or > may not have cygwin, you're stuck with the pain. You end up with either > huge amounts of OS-conditional junk, or simply maintain two different > make files. That's a bit incomprehensible. Cygwin is Free Software. You can either provide a copy of Cygwin, or, probably more sensibly, point to where people can get it. If you are in a non-hobbyist environment, where people need to use supported software, you can obtain supported versions of Cygwin from Redhat. Requiring people to obtain cygwin is no different from requiring them to acquire any other software they may require. After all you are requiring your recipients to get Windows if you are providing a windows compatible version.