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Re: newbie cygwin install


oops... should've looked for other emails that resulted from that.

Is it just me or is this list more active than normal?  I had almost 500
msgs collected over just a few days of me not paying attention.

Shell

----- Original Message -----
From: "DJ Delorie" <dj@delorie.com>
To: <bf250@freenet.carleton.ca>
Cc: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: newbie cygwin install


>
> > As Christian says, the problem is setup.exe
>
> And I fixed it.  Doesn't anyone pay attention?
>
> > The old-setup.exe put everything in.
>
> The old-setup doesn't set up cygwin as correctly as the new setup.
>
> > If anyone from Cygwin is listening -
>
> On a weekend?  You're kidding, right?
>
> > PULL THAT VERSION until you have fixed it.
>
> No.  I don't take *orders* from people WHO DON'T PAY ME.  I work for
> Red Hat, not you.  Everything I do for the net version of cygwin is
> *volunteer* work.  If you would like to purchase a copy of GNUPro for
> Windows with a support contract (um, I think the average contract is
> about $7500/year), you can submit bug reports and expect them to get
> fixed.  Otherwise, you ask NICELY and you say PLEASE.  Got it?
>
> > No one benefits from having a program posted with that major a bug
> > except Bill Gates.
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were the one person in the world who
> never made mistakes.  Besides, it wasn't a major bug - in order to
> reproduce it, you had to manually download some of the files from the
> ftp area, but not all of them, and install from that.  If you
> downloaded everything, or let setup download what it needed, or
> installed directly from the internet, you wouldn't see this bug.
>
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