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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:28:52 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew DeFaria cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small In-Reply-To: <3E69339D.8070307@Salira.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > I was not accusing anyone of anything; I was simply commenting on the > > general statements made by people in this thread. I'm sorry if it > > seems to you that you were accused. You did read the P.S., right? > > The PS only says that this is not a flame. Still you reply to my post, > addressing me (After all you bothered to start your message by greeting > me personally e.g. "Andrew,") and then state: > > All in all, developers of Cygwin in particular are maintaining their > packages in their [copious] spare time, and to demand that something > be done "right now" because someone can't use their package is, to > say the least, unreasonable, IMO. > > It is indeed a natural assumption that the phrase "to demand that > something be done" is addressed to me, that I was demanding that > something be done. Andrew, I ought to re-read my messages before I send them (I started out addressing you and drifted off on a tangent). What can I say except "I apologize"? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/