From: Paul S. <pa...@is...> - 2000-09-24 20:55:41
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Hello Chris, Chris Telting <tel...@mi...> wrote: CT> Sure though I doubt I'll get but a couple responces. Last time CT> I brought it up no one really cared. Well, but did you yourself read others' messages on this topic? For example, did you read my forward from libtool mailing list about whole "gnu-win32" issue? It mentioned one and only feasible reason for changing - not 'Mingw' name, it's decoding - disauthorizition of using 'GNU' as part of the name by FSF. Nothing like that takes place. So there's no reason to change name. But there're always a lot of reasons to keep it - one is that purpose of name is to denote specific notion, and when name is changed, this reference is broken, what contradicts the purpose of the name. Second, that's author who named it so, so not you or me to change it. We'd rather be sure that author had an idea when named it. And I belive that Colin Peters chose name right. Do you? -- Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135 |