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Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:13:53 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: setup.exe is too small
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > All in all, developers of Cygwin in particular are maintaining their
> > packages in their [copious] spare time, and to demand that something
> > be done "right now" because someone can't use their package is, to say
> > the least, unreasonable, IMO.
>
> Did you honestly miss the part where I said that my comments were not
> meant to be consured as a demand that the producer produce for the
> consumer rather they are merely and attempt at explaining why some
> consumers hesistate to jump into something they know little about to
> become producers themselves or were you just being argumentative (or
> worse - mean :-)? I'm curious because I fail to see where you have
> reason to accuse me of demanding a fix during this discourse and quite
> frankly I resent the accusation.

Andrew,

I was not accusing anyone of anything; I was simply commenting on the
general statements made by people in this thread.  I'm sorry if it seems
to you that you were accused.  You did read the P.S., right?

As for "meanness" - yeah, I'm working on it. ];->
	Igor
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