On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:17:40PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Lars Munch wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:24:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > For six years, I've hosted a website for the cygwin free software > > > community. It began life as http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ where it was > > > the home of one of the first ports of perl to the cygwin platform, and > > > of an update to B20 of Andy Piper's venerable usr-utilities-B19. > > > > > > Later, cygutils moved to http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/ > > > > > > However, last year the neuro.gatech.edu site management was moved to a > > > different department (it's now at > > > http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/ ). The new site > > > management has more restrictive policies for user accounts, and I can no > > > longer keep multi-megabytes of open-source software there. > > > > > > Consequently, within the next week, cygutils will be going down, > > > permanently. As most of the items that used to reside there are now > > > official parts of the cygwin distribution and are hosted instead on the > > > cygwin mirror system, this comes as no great hardship to the community, > > > I think. However, there are a number of other items on the site that > > > others may wish to archive (and/or salvage for hosting on their own > > > sites) -- (but not everything! There's a lot of dross and out-of-date > > > stuff there). Hence, the one-week delay. > > > > > > I've attached a list of the entire current contents of the cygutils > > > website. Of note are the "ADOPT-ME" packages under testing, my cygwin > > > ports of libgeotiff and proj which were ITP'ed but rejected for official > > > inclusion, and a cygwin port of kerboros5. > > > > > > Note that cygipc and the "cygutils-package" are also both hosted by this > > > site, even though they are now part of the official cygwin distribution. > > > I will attempt to find new homes for those two items. > > > > > > Don't worry, I won't be disappearing from the cygwin community -- but > > > the cygutils website has served its purpose, and it's time to let it go. > > > > > > Oh -- and a final plea: I don't want a ton of people to try to "save" > > > the whole site and hammer ECE's server. A lot of the cygutils stuff > > > deserves to die; it's old and obsolete and doesn't need saving. But if > > > some of the items are worthy of preservation, don't everybody download > > > 'em all at once -- be gentle with ECE's server; you've got a whole week. > > > > > > -- > > > Chuck > > > > Has run-1.1.4 been included in cygwin? I always this to start rxvt and > > would be very sad to see this util disappear. > > > > Regards > > Lars Munch > > Run is included as part of the X-startup-scripts package, but I don't > recall if that package comes with the source. > Igor
Thanks for the information. I have just checked the X-startup-scripts package and the run source is included. -- Lars Munch -- 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/
