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Re: CygUtils website going dark


On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Lars Munch wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:24:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > For six years, I've hosted a website for the cygwin free software
> > community.  It began life as http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ where it was
> > the home of one of the first ports of perl to the cygwin platform, and
> > of an update to B20 of Andy Piper's venerable usr-utilities-B19.
> >
> > Later, cygutils moved to http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/
> >
> > However, last year the neuro.gatech.edu site management was moved to a
> > different department (it's now at
> > http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~cwilson/cygutils/ ).  The new site
> > management has more restrictive policies for user accounts, and I can no
> > longer keep multi-megabytes of open-source software there.
> >
> > Consequently, within the next week, cygutils will be going down,
> > permanently.  As most of the items that used to reside there are now
> > official parts of the cygwin distribution and are hosted instead on the
> > cygwin mirror system, this comes as no great hardship to the community,
> > I think.  However, there are a number of other items on the site that
> > others may wish to archive (and/or salvage for hosting on their own
> > sites) -- (but not everything! There's a lot of dross and out-of-date
> > stuff there).   Hence, the one-week delay.
> >
> > I've attached a list of the entire current contents of the cygutils
> > website.  Of note are the "ADOPT-ME" packages under testing, my cygwin
> > ports of libgeotiff and proj which were ITP'ed but rejected for official
> > inclusion, and a cygwin port of kerboros5.
> >
> > Note that cygipc and the "cygutils-package" are also both hosted by this
> > site, even though they are now part of the official cygwin distribution.
> >  I will attempt to find new homes for those two items.
> >
> > Don't worry, I won't be disappearing from the cygwin community -- but
> > the cygutils website has served its purpose, and it's time to let it go.
> >
> > Oh -- and a final plea: I don't want a ton of people to try to "save"
> > the whole site and hammer ECE's server.  A lot of the cygutils stuff
> > deserves to die; it's old and obsolete and doesn't need saving.  But if
> > some of the items are worthy of preservation, don't everybody download
> > 'em all at once -- be gentle with ECE's server; you've got a whole week.
> >
> > --
> > Chuck
>
> Has run-1.1.4 been included in cygwin? I always this to start rxvt and
> would be very sad to see this util disappear.
>
> Regards
> Lars Munch

Run is included as part of the X-startup-scripts package, but I don't
recall if that package comes with the source.
	Igor
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