Please keep replies on-list. And? Your points below don't give any rational that means NASM is good or bad to include. There are lots of things that only a few folk use in cygwin already - i.e. robots.
Other things also build smoothly - ie squid, grep, ls, sh-utils, bash, to name a few. So that's also not a good criterion. As for the licence, they must be open source, but that's all. Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Stanislav Sinyagin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:46 PM > To: Robert Collins > Subject: RE: RFP: NASM > > > I've built nasm from the latest sources yesterday, under Cygwin > it builds and installs without any errors or problems. > > I used it for building of Lame mp3 encoder, everything went smoothly. > > I suppose that NASM is that rare thing to use by 90% of the users, > that those 10% who might need it would easily build it by themselves. > > Also they produce the software under a very special license, > so probably there are some legal issues in including it into > the distribution... > > Stan > > > --- Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do they have cygwin versions? Are they interested in having it > > available via setup.exe? > > > > Rob > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:47 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: RFP: NASM > > > > > > > > > I kinda thought the people at nasm.2y.net were doing a good > > > job of maintaining it.... > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:42:48AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > > > Hallo, > > > > > > > > > > Is someone willing to maintain NASM, the netwide assembler? > > > > > > > > You? > > > > > > > > Corinna > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ >
