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authorDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2000-05-11 20:19:21 +0400
committerDavid Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>2000-05-11 20:19:21 +0400
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parentd542e8ffede35e4e5f58bae2cf1c01278a0220a6 (diff)
Preliminary update to FAQ to reflect latest net release.
(So far, just a new title, some minor updates, and a disclaimer in each section that has to be updated for the net release, or at least looked at.)
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@@ -39,18 +39,23 @@ it with their friends, etc. The Cygwin license allows you those
freedoms, so it is free software.
The Cygwin 1.0 product is a "commercial" distribution of cygwin. As
-such, it includes such non-software things as printed manuals,
-support, and aggregation of useful utilities. There is nothing
-(software-wise) in there that you can't already get off the net
-already, if you take the time to find and download everything (and
-usually, build it yourself). We test it all to make sure it works
-together, and package it in a convenient form. We consider such
-testing and packaging to be a valuable service and thus charge a fee
-for it. Plus, it provides income for the cygwin project so we can
-continue working on it :-)
+such, it includes such non-software things as printed manuals, support,
+and aggregation of useful utilities. There is nothing (software-wise)
+in there that you can't already get off the net already, if you take the
+time to find and download everything (and usually, build it yourself),
+although the @emph{versions} available for download may be different
+than those distributed with the commercial product. We test it all to
+make sure it works together, and package it in a convenient form. We
+consider such testing and packaging to be a valuable service and thus
+charge a fee for it. Plus, it provides income for the cygwin project so
+we can continue working on it. For further details about the commercial
+product, see @file{http://www.cygnus.com/cygwin/}.
@section A brief history of the project
+@strong{(Please note: This section has not yet been updated for the latest
+net release.)}
+
The first thing done was to enhance the development tools (gcc, gdb,
gas, et al) so that they could generate/interpret Win32 native object
files.