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 10:58:29 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: [ot] making stuff Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:57:59 GMT References: <5ee5b646.0207200443.33d1ef1f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27277 Date: 2002-07-20T17:57:59+00:00 List-Id: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: > 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. True. I recommend everybody install Cygwin. (Or better yet, Linux.) But I suspect that if you require people to install extra stuff in order to use your program, some people will be less likely to bother. On the other hand, perhaps we're talking only about programmers here (since we're talking about distributing make files to them), and programmers shouldn't have trouble installing cygwin. So I guess you're right -- the best bet is to distribute unix-ish make files, and require users to have cygwin. > 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. I wish that were true. I wish cygwin, and Emacs, and GNAT, and lots of other good stuff came pre-installed on the PC I bought last month! ;-) - Bob