An Open Letter, Charlie
Before I present my open letter, some context is necessary.
From #foxymonkies:
00:23 <@Ryan> @preed-scotch: Drinking at the office? :0Now then...
00:24 <@preed-scotch> Ryan: hell yeah.
00:24 <@preed-scotch> I'm stuck here until 4 am.
00:24 <@preed-scotch> What would *you* be doing if you wer stuck here until 4 am.
00:24 <@Ryan> ouch
00:24 <@preed-scotch> so
00:24 <@preed-scotch> I've got me some Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs
00:24 <@preed-scotch> and three bottles of scotch
00:24 <@preed-scotch> and three hours to kill.
00:25 <@preed-scotch> time to get tore up.
00:25 <@preed-scotch> followed immediately by signing Win32 builds.
Dear Cygwin,
Please kindly FOaD.
Love,
preed
Comments
Less pre, more cowbell!
Posted by: reed | February 9, 2007 1:16 AM
As my company's de-facto build engineer and fellow scotch lover, I can relate to this situation :) This made my morning.
Posted by: Jon Henry | February 9, 2007 5:28 AM
Amen, brother!
Posted by: Benjamin Smedberg | February 9, 2007 7:13 AM
why the hate brother? cygwin was there when your only friend was dos.
Posted by: Cygwin | February 9, 2007 9:04 AM
I know Cygwin... I know.
But... well... I'll just say it: MSYS and I have been having an affair for awhile now.
It all started when MSYS was flirting with me; so much younger... and faster.. and slimmer... and ho boy, was the I/O good.
I... hate to have to tell you in a blog comment, Cygwin, but... I'm leaving you.
I know we were going to stay together for the sake of our beautiful child, the Mozilla Build System, but... I think it's time we face reality. It's going to be much easier to teach Mozilla Build who its new Daddy is than to continue forcing ourselves to feign love for each other.
Sorry, Cygwin.
Love,
preed
P.S. Don't ever bring up that whore DOS again. Ever. It was just a fling. In college. And I got gonorrhea from DOS, too. Please, just let old wounds lie.
Posted by: Preed | February 9, 2007 5:42 PM
Apparently you have been heard. DOS is dead!
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:43:32 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor
To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com
Subject: EOL for Windows 95/86/Me
I'm not sure if it has reached the consciousness of the general Cygwin
user base yet but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the
fact that we will be ripping out support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and
Windows Me in the next version of Cygwin, which will be version 1.7.0.
[snip]
Barring that however, it's so long Windows 9x.
Posted by: Ron | February 13, 2007 7:59 AM