Summary: Miscellaneous topics

Inhoud

Abstract
Webspace, Download, CVS
Datatypes
- netpbm.datatype
Cygwin
- License

Abstract

Summary of miscellaneous topics discussed on the aros-dev mailinglist during January 2002.

Webspace, Download, CVS

Sebastian Heutling <sheutlin@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>:

If we don't get into sourceforge we could try savannah: http://savannah.gnu.org/

Datatypes

netpbm.datatype

I have laying around a netpbm.datatype here.

It uses NetPBM to load any picture, so we just need to port NetPBM (very portable) to AROS to have access to every human known pictureformat on the planet.

(Joerg Dietrich <Dietrich_Joerg@t-online.de>)

Cygwin

License

> > Please be aware that cygwin is GPL and everything that is linked with > > the cygwin DLL has to made GPL also.

> AFAIK it's only if you link against the cygwin dll, which if you're > building native or a straight win32 app you don't need to do this anyway. > The advantage cygwin has over mingw is that cygwin comes complete with a > posix compliant gnu tool chain which IIRC is necessary for building. >

Oh, but you can link with libcygwin.a and avoid this restriction. Please see the note at http://cygwin.com/licensing.html

(Phill Wooller, Johan Grip <ogun@smaug.moranet.se>)