On 04/10/2012 11:19 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello! Mike, what were you looking for when you clicked there? That's
how his resource presents use with zip files of his work.
I had assumed that clicking on a link named
"https://github.com/markpizz/simh/zipball/v3.9-0-rc1"; would yield a zip
file whose name contained the string "3.9-0-rc1" or something similar.
my message was commenting on the fact that the zip file retrieved by
clicking that link instead contained the string "v3.8-2-rc2", which
seemingly indicated earlier code.
If a zip file named after "v3.8-2-rc2" actually contains code from the
later version "3.9-0-rc1", how is one to be certain which file in one's
Downloads directory contains what contents, after several downloads of a
development release whose packaging names do not match the purported
versions have taken up residence in that directory?
Cygnus was glommed by Red Hat because of its interest in eCos . . .
however that part got spun off years later leaving them holding the
bag for the Cygnus tool chains. The question is, "What company were
you thinking of? . . . Please explain off list.
As long as doing so ends with this clarification, I don't think it
hurts to respond on-list. There are many companies and individuals who
sell support services for free software, probably in part due to the
example set by Cygnus years ago. I only said "like Cygnus", because I
didn't want to present the implication that they were the only ones. A
large list of such companies and individuals is maintained at
http://www.fsf.org/resources/service .
- michael
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