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Re: Whack-a-Mole: Purging Cygnus from Registry


On Jul 16 10:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:46:59AM -0700, Todd Curry wrote:
> >I'm using an rsyncd package that uses its own version of cygwin, and 
> >does not play nice when installed on a machine with Cygwin.  It is part 
> >of BackupPC, which is turning out to be an incredible piece of backup 
> >software.
> 
> **cgf wakes up after ten minutes of being in a deep coma shock
> 
> Wow.  An free software project which uses cygwin and actually includes
> the source code for cygwin.  Whoopee!

Yup, I saw that, too.  It was actually the first thing I checked for.
But I still don't like the idea of projects providing their own Cygwin
DLL.  It would be the same if the project provides their Linux binary
package together with a Linux kernel.


Corinna

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