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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....

  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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