Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-13 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Tom! > > If you are going to make a fork, add a well-behaving shell to the > requirements and leave out everything else. I know a project with > configure script longer than 500k. Uncompressed sources o

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-14 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 05:38:49 +1000 Dean Povey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How could you distribute a binary to run on all the different kinds of > >systems? I use Cygwin and MinGW. Am I going to be excluded from Open > >Source packages because the package maintainer decided not to provide > >su