Re: [Nano-devel] Lack of source for cygwin1.dll in windows version of nano

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:52:33AM -0700, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> A cygwin mailing list user indicated that you were providing a copy
>> of cygwin1.dll in your windows distribution of nano, so I thought I'd
>> check out your site to see what was up.  I may be missing something but
>> I don't see the source code for the cygwin DLL located anywhere on
>> your site.
>
>Hello Christopher,
>
>       No, you are correct, my apologies. I have copied the file
>cygwin-1.3.19-1-src.tar.bz2 to the NT/ subdirectory of the nano
>distribution, I am using a fairly old installation of cygwin so I
>imagine this should be the correct version.  Unfortunately I have no
>electricity at home right now so I can't check for certain. If this does
>not satisfy the requirements please let me know.  Ironic that a GNU
>package would itself be violating the GPL...

:-)

>       The win32 package you mentioned was created for people who
>didn't want to have the entire cygwin distribution installed in order to
>use nano; for the same reason the nano binary uses PDcurses rather than
>ncurses so no termcap files are needed.  I think the cygwin provided
>version of nano is far superior as things like spell check would
>actually work, but I think the standalone win32 package is still
>useful, just to a different audience.

Ok.  Makes sense.

>Anyway, my apologies again and have a good day.

No apologies necessary.  It is actually great for me to bring this to
someone's attention and get such a reasonable response.  Much appreciated.

cgf