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 window

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

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

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

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 > distrib

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 Fre

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 i

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

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 v