On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:05:06PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Peter A. Castro wrote: >>to keep up with the flow. Yes, it may be a little painful if you >>haven't refreshed in a while (say, from the "b20" days :), but you will >>have > >Ah. Cygwin B20.1. Man, those were the days. Cygwin was practically >perfect in every way, bugfree, and featureful. It even made coffee! > >I miss B20. <sniff> > >'Course, apparently the guy who started this thread misses B20 too -- >those were the days of a single monolithic cygwin release with a single >version number. If it wasn't in the full.exe installer, it wasn't >available (not that you'd want anything else once you tasted your first >cup of B20 coffee!) -- unless you went to disreputable third party >sites like cygutils. :-)
And releases sometimes didn't happen for more than a year so if there was a problem with bash, you had to wait for the whole cygwin release to be respun. The full.exe's were generated by a guy at Cygnus who knew InstallShield and we had to wait for his time to be freed up before a new release would be made available. Of course, I knew how to run InstallShield, too, but I didn't know the secret handshake that would allow one to upload things to the web site. Eventually, I sent email to the CEO asking if we couldn't loosen things up a little. He said, yes, we got a volunteer to write a new installer, and the rest is history. Of course, marketing said "wait a minute" a couple of months later but the source was already out of the bag by that point. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
