Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2002-01-04 Thread Charles Wilson
David A. Cobb wrote: > > Gee, Chuck, will that also apply to your Cygwin Utilities page? Yep -- except that there's really no need. That page, for all intents and purposes, is dead. Okay, it's not entirely dead yet -- merely moribund. For a number of reasons: 1) Most everything that USED

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2002-01-04 Thread David A. Cobb
Charles Wilson wrote: > However, with the soon-to-be-released features in setup.exe, there's no > reason why Jon can't provide a "cygwin-friendly" download site (complete > with his own setup.ini) -- folks could then explicitly add his download > site to their own list, and the new setup will

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:18:51AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I'm not sure what you're asking. sources.redhat.com is still going to >> be the main repository for all of the cygwin distribution and mirrors >> will be downloading from sources.red

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-22 Thread Charles Wilson
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm not sure what you're asking. sources.redhat.com is still going to > be the main repository for all of the cygwin distribution and mirrors > will be downloading from sources.redhat.com. > > So, you'll still need to have your package approved and

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Jon Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks for the information. > > So where can I find out information about the soon to be > released features of setup.exe ?? In the code, or the Change Log or the README. > I assume that the setup.hint will be extended t

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:39:47AM +, Jon Green wrote: >Thanks for the information. > >So where can I find out information about the soon to be >released features of setup.exe ?? I have made up some cygwin >friendly software bundles and published them, the URL's are >by HTTP only as follows:-

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-21 Thread Jon Green
Thanks for the information. So where can I find out information about the soon to be released features of setup.exe ?? I have made up some cygwin friendly software bundles and published them, the URL's are by HTTP only as follows:- http://www.jasspa.com/release_010814/jasspa-20010801.tar.bz2 htt

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-18 Thread Charles Wilson
I believe the commercial restrictions are problematic. If we're going to include an emacs, I'd prefer one that is completely free (speech) like FSF Emacs or XEmacs. However, with the soon-to-be-released features in setup.exe, there's no reason why Jon can't provide a "cygwin-friendly" downloa

Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Green
Hi, I would like to contribute JASSPA's MicroEmacs to the Cygwin package list, a Emacs Text Editor. This is currently being distributed from http://www.jasspa.com. We are in the process of putting together the next release and have now resolved most of the problems in porting