Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/02/16/09:09:50
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:16:02PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> >screen is an extremely useful program, that people have been asking for in
>> >Cygwin for a long time. I'd be willing to package it, but when I floated
>> >the idea a year ago or so, the feeling seemed to be that there were still
>> >too many bugs to make it useful. If people can live with (or even better,
>> >test and help me try to fix) the unkilled-child-process bug, then I'm
>> >willing. I could release it as a test version.
>> >
>> >Yes? No?
>>
>> What do I have to do with this? If you are responding to something that
>> I said then please post a reference and don't leave everyone guessing.
>
>I was imagining that you would remember the conversation.
...from almost two years ago. Uh huh.
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00183.html
So, as I so wisely said two years ago: If you can't use one of the major
features of screen, it doesn't sound like the package is ready for prime
time.
And, just in case you're wondering if I am going to volunteer to help you
track down problems - I'm not. So, maybe anyone who wants screen should
volunteer to help.
cgf
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