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: <015001c2e1a5$6812c830$485986d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" References: <20030226200209.GA24694@redhat.com> <013a01c2e1a2$7c52fc00$485986d9@webdev> <20030303164646.GD21446@redhat.com> Subject: Re: pdksh installation Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:53:24 -0000 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 V6.00.2800.1106 > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:32:29PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >True. And I speak for the package maintainer here, of course. If there was a > >problem with one of the package files that had not already been discovered > >it would be nice to let him (me) know about it, if it hadn't already been > >reported on the cygwin-apps mailing list during the testing phase. > > I don't want to beat this to death but I get the strong feeling that my > point is being lost here. > > If someone can't figure out how to install a "prerelease" version of a package > then I don't think their feedback will be all that useful. Life is full of > tradeoffs. In this project, the tradeoff that I am enforcing is that we > don't clutter the list with "I can't figure out how to install the bushwah > package. How do I plug it into setup.exe so that I can install it?" email. > > Of course I understand that there is a potential of missing feedback on > package installation problems but that is what cygwin-apps and the dedicated > group of people doing package review is for. Adding a secondary group of > more clueless testers is not how I want things to be handled. The cygwin > mailing list is consistently the first or second most active list on > sources.redhat.com. When I see trends developing that would tend to > increase traffic for little gain, I will take steps to stop them. Sorry. I've been out of the loop for a while and noticed these in my inbox and thought I should answer some of them. I'll stop now! :-) > cgf Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/