From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: python and cygwin
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040221000126.GB25477@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402201853190.16128@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:55:19PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Actually, the main goal of Cygwin is to annoy users and to give a vent to
>the innate meanness of its developers.
>
>The secondary goal of Cygwin is to provide POSIX compatibility. The Unix
>tools are incidental. :-)
Thank you for making this clarification. I was getting ready to type
this in and now I don't have to!
I guess a clarifying web page update is called for. I won't update it,
though, because, well, you know...
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-21 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 23:54 DePriest, Jason R.
2004-02-21 0:01 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-02-21 0:26 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
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2004-02-21 18:45 Totte Karlsson
2004-02-20 22:33 Totte Karlsson
2004-02-20 22:53 ` Totte Karlsson
2004-02-20 23:20 ` Brian Dessent
2004-02-20 23:39 ` Totte Karlsson
2004-02-21 0:00 ` Brian Dessent
2004-02-21 1:25 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 2:29 ` Totte Karlsson
2004-02-21 2:36 ` Norman Vine
2004-02-21 2:38 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 3:10 ` Larry Hall
2004-02-22 19:29 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
2004-02-22 20:09 ` Larry Hall
2004-02-22 22:15 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
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