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On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:31:47PM +0300, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:01:58AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>All that said, the tone of the requester is not helping the setup
>>maintainer or the rest of the list really sympathize with his position.
>>?His points wouldn't be so bad if he merely asked for features and
>>improvements rather than demand them and belittle the maintainers when
>>they disagree.  ?Of course, his ideas might be accepted even quicker if
>>they were presented as patches.  ?Cygwin is a volunteer effort after
>>all.
>
>Jeremy, I've merely made some suggestions, I certainly didn't or didn't
>intend to demand anything.  The responses to my suggestions did not
>appear to be based on their merit, rather on the fact that I made them,
>and I replied in the same tone that the suggestions were met with.

Attempts at revisionist history aside, if you'd care to offer patches to
setup they would be objectively considered.

cgf


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