Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/12/28/18:15:20
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Stephane Donze wrote:
>I am sorry to have to say that, but your message is a very good example
>of the fundamental difference between a project that is useable and
>reliable, and a project that "almost works" and will never do more that
>that.
>
>[snip]
>
>If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life
>production or development environments, you should go a bit further than
>"I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself". If you
>don't want to or are not able to pay attention to "real world" bugs,
>cygwin will probably never be more than an "almost working" program
>that runs on your computer the time to take nice screenshots, but fails
>miserably when users try to make it work in the real life.
You know, if you'd just waited *a week*, you probably could have laid
claim to being the first posting of this type in 2005 rather than
(hopefully) the last of 2004. I think that being first is usually much
more auspicious.
So close...
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