From: Paul G. <pga...@qw...> - 2001-08-29 23:38:45
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On 29 Aug 2001 at 8:04, the Illustrious Earnie Boyd wrote: > "Steve D. Perkins" wrote: > > > > Just wanted to forward this snippet from Joerg Bruehe, from a > > dialogue > > in the general [MinGW-users] mailing list pertaining to website > > updates: > > > > > If this is true, I propose the team contacts the owner of > > > http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html > > > and includes a link to that location, > > > because I have good experiences with the binaries ("zsh", "tar" as > > > well as several others) from there. > > > > I didn't want to bring this up on that list... but a month or two > > ago > > there was a brief flurry of discussion out here about expanding the > > scope of MinGW to include a shell environment (basically for the > > "MinGW environment" to become Cygwin without the bloat and licensing > > issues). Where did that discussion leave off, and has there been any > > progress towards the ideas that were talked about? I still take the standpoint of the traditional/purist for Mingw. In other words, if I were conducting a peaceful demonstration, my signs would say things like: "Keep Mingw Free of impure Unix shells!" "Windows Shell Users Unite!" "Mingw is Not Unix!" "Free the Mingw runtime!" "mv zsh > \dev0:" "deltree \zsh_x.x" ... --Paul G. |