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: <40491E0C.10909@rehley.net> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:40:44 -0800 From: Peter Rehley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cywin Setup application not able to maximise References: <6.0.0.22.2.20040305180655.02239b90@coolbrew.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040305180655.02239b90@coolbrew.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Greg McCrory wrote: > At 3/5/2004 04:08 PM, you wrote: > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > >> >Michael John >> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:51 PM >> > Subject: Cywin Setup application not able to maximise >> > >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > i'm using Cygwin for more than half a yeah now. Admittedly, i >> > find it very >> > impractical not being allowed to resize, respectively maximize, the >> setup >> > application, because the tree of packages to install is much to >> > large for the >> > window. >> > >> > Is this intended? Differently asked, is there a projected time to >> > change this >> > behaviour? >> > >> >> A search of the archives will prove instructive >> >> Ken > > > > Actually, a search of the archives will prove futile, as the standard > response is, "if you want a better setup, code it yourself." Since > most of the people asking this question are a bit green in their > programming skills, and in fact may be complete neophytes, the > response to "code it yourself" is somewhat cold. > > How about a kinder, gentler response like, "we are trying to find > someone with the skill and will to re-code the setup program to > provide for window resizing, but as of yet have no takers." > > GMc But that would violate the cygwin slogan "Because We Are Mean" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/