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RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:45:05 -0500
- Subject: RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent
- References: <200505022036.j42KawE0008874@mailgw01n.flightsafety.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, 20:58:44 -0500 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> As one of the many people responsible for setup...
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> - I am responsible for a good portion of setup's UI. It used to be a series
> of dialog boxes. It is now a "Wizard"-style UI. I did that.
I believe it was simply the choice of the word responsible that cgf
objected to. Along with the above use of the present tense am, I can see
how casual observers might be (and were) confused.
From
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=responsible&x=0&y=0:
1 a: liable to be called on to answer
b: liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent
3 : marked by or involving responsibility or accountability
Perhaps:
As one of the many contributors to setup...
and
I contributed a good portion of setup's UI.
might have been better choices in hind sight.
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...
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