Eric Blake wrote: > According to Dave Korn on 8/19/2009 1:35 PM: >> Charles Wilson wrote: > >>> This release includes the use of shell functions, providing smaller and >>> faster configure scripts. >> Seriously, this should not be underestimated. I tried it for the first >> time >> last night, and suddenly configure scripts really just fly by; I'm used to a >> second or two's delay between the results being output from each test, but >> this thing will suddenly scroll you half a screen full of results in a >> fraction of a second when it's on top of its game. Seriously, w00t! > > Thanks for the praise! Now everyone else can enjoy what I've been beta > testing for the last year! I can't take all the credit; Ralf Wildenhues > and Paolo Bonzini were also heavy-hitters for this, but between the three > of us, we really DID trim off a lot of unnecessary bulk in both size and > number of forks. And it just goes to show that cygwin is consistently > getting better when one of the primary autoconf developers uses cygwin as > his primary development environment, so there is also some thanks to hand > to cgf and Corinna for responding to my frequent bug reports.
Yep, kudos to Eric, Ralf, and Paolo. I take NO credit for any of this; I had nothing to do with it except to build the cygwin distribution packages last night. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
