On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Robert Citek wrote: > Hello Igor, > > At 06:42 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Robert Citek wrote: > >> [snip] > >> In fact, I would have two items: > >> 1) How can I redistribute Cygwin? > >> 2) How can I create an ISO to redistribute Cygwin (probably a pointer to > >> a how-to). If there was a wiki or blog for this, I would be happy to > >> contribute how I create my ISOs. > > > >You could simply send those instructions to this mailing list... The FAQ > >entry could point to your message in the archives. > > True. But I'm hoping that someone will read my instructions on the web, > laugh at them (and maybe at me, too), and make them better right on the > spot. Wiki is great for this. In the mean time, I will write them up and > post to the list.
Any corrections will also be sent to the list and linked with your message into a thread. The result will be not just the correct instructions, but also the whole change history. Can wiki do that? ;-) Speaking of ISOs, I hope they include source... <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#GPL> > >You could also send a patch to the FAQ, of course. The instructions for > >getting Cygwin sources from CVS are at <http://cygwin.com/cvs.html>, and > >the FAQ is in winsup/doc/faq.texinfo (and related files). > > I'm still getting my feet wet with the Cygwin sources, CVS, patch, etc. > For example, I downloaded the setup module and compiled it. Instead of a > ~100 K file, mine was ~10 MB. It seems to work, but obviously, I did > something wrong. Or is being off by 2 orders of magnitude "close enough?" "man strip". FYI, the stripped mingw-compiled setup.exe is just over 700k. > >This is an open-source project. It's much easier to get your changes > >accepted here, especially if those changes are to the documentation (for > >the better). In fact, you could be awarded the honorable title of CTDW > >(see <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CTDW>). ;-) > > Oooo. I'll actually have a chance at being not just sexy but Ubersexy. > Now that deserves some serious consideration. :-) > > Regards, > - Robert Hey, it's working! Great! Gary, do you copy? ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
