From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Jan Nieuwenhuizen'" <janneke-list@xs4all.nl>
Cc: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>, "'hanwen'" <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: RE: PING Jan Nieuwenhuizen re libguile17
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03b601c88f72$e464bcb0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206544790.20146.102.camel@peder.flower>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote on 26 March 2008 15:20:
> Dave Korn writes:
>
> > /usr/bin/gcc, i.e. the latest release in the distro.
>
> Ah, I meant source-wise, I do not run Cygwin.
It comes in a source distribution as well, same as all cygwin packages.
> > > Unpacking Cygwin's gcc/g++
> > > source archive in a python script is a bit of a pain (that's an
> > > understatement :-).
> >
> > I don't understand why that would be necessary?
>
> Releases are not so often that it is annoying, I manually
> repacked them.
> But still. When working with computers, people find it handy to
> automate repetitive tasks
Is this meant to be as offensively patronising as it came out? It reads
like it was aimed at a two-year old child. If I want the Janet and John
guide to computer fundamentals, I'll ask for it.
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-27 12:51 Dave Korn
2008-01-31 16:05 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-01-31 16:54 ` Dave Korn
2008-02-04 14:10 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-02-04 14:55 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-21 15:07 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-03-21 18:57 ` Brian Dessent
2008-03-22 13:03 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-03-22 16:52 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-22 16:52 ` Brian Dessent
2008-03-22 17:02 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-22 20:25 ` Brian Dessent
[not found] ` <1206438594.26012.14.camel@peder.flower>
2008-03-25 13:02 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-26 11:22 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-03-26 13:38 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-26 15:20 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-03-26 18:55 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2008-03-27 11:10 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-03-27 13:04 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-27 14:25 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2008-05-29 8:44 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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