From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re[2]: Cygwin participation threshold
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2965.990224@is.lg.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com>
Hello Christopher,
Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
CF> But, of course, maybe none of these observations matter. We're talking
CF> about perceptions, here. It's my contention that if the EGCS project
CF> had been named 'cyg-gcc' that it probably wouldn't have as large a base
CF> of contributors. It's probably the initial 'cyg' which is off putting
CF> to people as well as the technical barrier of having to know both UNIX
CF> and Windows code.
By the way, if you haven't answered that yet, changing name from
gnu-win32 to cygwin has your motivation or FSF's?
CF> cgf
Best regards,
Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua
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From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re[2]: Cygwin participation threshold
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2965.990224@is.lg.ua> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.lLvZp6c8hjQVfFTlvhTaZabDfncgij6gymepzdLb5Mg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com>
Hello Christopher,
Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
CF> But, of course, maybe none of these observations matter. We're talking
CF> about perceptions, here. It's my contention that if the EGCS project
CF> had been named 'cyg-gcc' that it probably wouldn't have as large a base
CF> of contributors. It's probably the initial 'cyg' which is off putting
CF> to people as well as the technical barrier of having to know both UNIX
CF> and Windows code.
By the way, if you haven't answered that yet, changing name from
gnu-win32 to cygwin has your motivation or FSF's?
CF> cgf
Best regards,
Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-24 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-24 10:55 Steve Morris
[not found] ` < 199902241855.NAA16459@brocade.nexen.com >
1999-02-24 12:40 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 13:13 ` Paul Sokolovsky [this message]
[not found] ` < 2965.990224@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-24 13:21 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990224162212.A27405@cygnus.com >
1999-02-25 22:51 ` Geoffrey Noer
[not found] ` < 19990225225149.A1388@cygnus.com >
1999-02-26 7:26 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-02-26 2:55 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 13:50 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-26 8:27 ` Steve Morris
[not found] ` < 199902261627.LAA18993@brocade.nexen.com >
1999-02-27 7:49 ` Todd Goodman
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Todd Goodman
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-26 8:55 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 12:46 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 15947.990224@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-24 13:28 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990224162911.A27461@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 14:16 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-26 1:21 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
1999-02-25 6:01 Weiqi Gao
1999-02-25 13:48 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Paul Sokolovsky
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