Ideas re problem reporting

[luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au]

On 22 May, Sam Edge wrote:
>  In addition, you are likely to get little help here with any problem 
>  unless you installed cygwin via the "official" setup.exe that you can 
>  get via the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://www.cygwin.com/ 
>  web site. 

If this is a common occurrence (installing but bypassing setup.exe
somehow), then maybe it should finish by adding a registry entry to say
it did the install (and whether partial or full), so that problem
reports that include the system info would let you know this.

Perhaps even a bug reporting script that asked the questions you want
answered, and ran cygcheck etc. (basically, automating as much of the
http://cygwin.com/problems.html procedure as far as possible), might be
worthwhile.

If people think it's a good idea, I might have a go at one this weekend.

luke


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