Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <02f001c22215$e7ff21b0$1800a8c0@LAPTOP> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Chris Game" , References: <20020630122544.44223.qmail@web21008.mail.yahoo.com> <5930-Mon01Jul2002112151+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Setup query Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:14:59 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Game" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:57 AM > Thanks for the response, David, though judging by the silence from > the experts on this it might be hard to discover what this control > actually does. Does no-one really know? I find that hard to believe. Funnily enough we do. And the exact behaviour of those changes was announced here when they were made (and released). > And more practically, the proper place for the explanation is not in > the FAQ but on a pop-up box accessible from the setup screen. Keep > the information near where it's needed. Cygwin may be fun to play > with, but only if you like puzzles and have the time to unravel them. > For real-world users it's like running a set of tools held together > with baler twine - and each time one of them updates you have to undo > and remake the baler twine connections all over again! Patches are always welcome. Otherwise this is on the TODO list already, and will be gotten to. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/