Apology

Mon Nov 15 18:29:00 GMT 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall 
> Sent: 15 November 2004 18:18

> At 01:04 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Darkfalz
> >> Sent: 15 November 2004 17:57
> >> To: cygwin
> >> Subject: Apology
> >> 
> >> Sorry about that last email, really. Please stop sending me abuse.
> >
> >
> > OK, since you've been big enough to apologise, let me 
> point out that there
> >already is a way to just get a recent up-to-date 
> cygwin1.dll, in a zip file,
> >more or less exactly what you wanted:
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots
>>> Ugh! I was hoping somebody wasn't going to point to that. 

> rightly or wrongly). Obviously all of us who know about 
> snapshots (and it's not like they are 
> hidden or anything - there's a link to them on the main page) 
> know that they are moving targets representing ongoing 
> development. These are *not* the 
> same as the release versions available via 'setup.exe'. And 
> they come with
> no list support. If someone is willing to work with a random 
> snapshot DLL, 
> then this is the place to get it. If however they are 
> looking for just 
> 'cygwin1.dll' that is synonymous with the released version, 
> they have to 
> pull that themselves from the 'cygwin' package in 'setup.exe'.

 Thanks for clarifying and enlarging on what I meant by "more or less"! Having
said that, the cygwin dll is fairly stable, and by cunningly choosing a snapshot
close enough in time to a release date, you're liable to get pretty much the
same compiled codebase in it.
> So I guess that leads us back to <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>.

 Doesn't everything?
 cheers, 
 DaveK
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