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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:50:55 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Please report this problem to the public mailing list...
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On Jan 24 10:32, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 1/24/2017 10:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> > We have received several postings of people responding to the Cygwin-ge=
nerated=20
> > message: WARNING: ... Please report this problem to the public mailing =
list
> > cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
> >=20
> > I wonder how many places such messages are present in the Cygwin code.
> >=20
> > Just throwing out an idea here to help people help themselves...
> >=20
> > Consider all such messages carrying an error code and referred to a Cyg=
win web=20
> > page that contained links to separate pages for each error code, and th=
ose pages,=20
> > then, would contain the latest information as to how to recover from th=
e=20
> > respective errors.
> >=20
>=20
> Great idea.  I can see this
>=20
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>=20
> being referenced instead of the mail list which the person may not be
> subscribed to. Care to present a patch to the web page?  And we need a
> patch to the text parts of Cygwin to point to the web page.

If somebody cares to write a patch for a new FAQ entry, I change the
Cygwin source to point it out.

On second thought, Cygwin should probably simple tell the user to update
the outdated Cygwin installation instead.


Corinna

--=20
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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