From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: Paul Sokolovsky , Earnie Boyd Cc: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: Re[2]: [ANN] PW32 the (alternative) Posix-over-Win32 layer 0.3.0 released Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.2.20000313181326.00b8a590@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <20000313180414.15800.qmail@web107.yahoomail.com> <9886.000313@is.lg.ua> X-SW-Source: 2000-03/msg00295.html At 02:16 PM 3/13/00, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: >Hello Earnie, > >Earnie Boyd wrote: > >EB> --- Chris Faylor wrote: > >> Hmm. I would like to receive opinions on whether people consider this > >> announcement to be off-topic. > >> > >EB> I would consider it off-topic for this list unless the core of the product uses >EB> Cygwin. Announcements of products using Cygwin should be considered on topic, >EB> IMO. > > Thanks, Earnie. It seems that Free Software really have problems, >and vendor patents are not the biggest of them. Remember one of the >latest Freshmeat editorials where Linux community was compared with >guys kicking each other. Lack of generalization... > > But I write this not to release funny thought (nor to be killed >off from list), but to ask you, as cygwin veteran (as well as other >authorities) whether following will be appropriate. > > I'm going to benchmark as many POSIX implementations as I will >be able to put my hands on (this will ammount to very-very little, and >generally I'd prefer someone else to do this, but I'm afraid noone will >bother). Cygwin will be included. So, will results (with appropriate >disclaimer and links to tests sources) be interesting for cygwin >community/appropriate for cygwin mailing list? > > >EB> --- >EB> Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > > >-- >Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135 Personally, I think posting comparative data is useful to this list... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX (508) 560-1285 - cell phone -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com