Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-26 Thread Ralph Jennings
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:42:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: The point being? We do not have to waste time with that now, at least not with the kernel. We still need not to get too trigger happy with hardware and firmware, but otherwise... I won't help a Microsoft windows

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:00:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: The social contract says Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software. Such a win-port might indeed serve some users. But for my own part, I do have some personal

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jules Bean wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:00:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: The social contract says Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software. Such a win-port might indeed serve some users.

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit Someone could always port Debian to the Windows kernel, but they should not call it Debian anymore, and it has no place in our archives (because it is contrib [or non-free?] and too big to be inserted in the contrib

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-22 Thread Manuel Segura
I agree totaly with you.. Manuel Segura Richard B. Kreckel a écrit : Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, A Mennucc1 wrote: [...] -why is the 'win' port important? [...] (Sorry for dropping in late to this thread, I was too busy lately to follow debian-devel tightly.) The social

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-21 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Hi, On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, A Mennucc1 wrote: [...] -why is the 'win' port important? [...] (Sorry for dropping in late to this thread, I was too busy lately to follow debian-devel tightly.) The social contract says Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software. Such a win-port might

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: The social contract says Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software. Such a win-port might indeed serve some users. But for my own part, I do have some personal problems with making all free software win-compatible. Does it serve Free

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-03 Thread A Mennucc1
hi On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:21:41PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:32:19PM +0200, Carsten Leonhardt wrote: A Mennucc1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why? well, there was no big consenous on any name; so I looked at the problem the other way around, and saw that

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:09:03PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: Mingw requires that the program actually be able to build on a win32 system, but produces code that runs much faster, is far more stable in my experience, and competes head to head with the same app compiled for MSVC versions