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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: maintaining bash Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:41:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <79F81D5F4790D344B05F489CE2AC8AB717CF11@dubexdc03.dubex.net> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Apr 2005 16:41:24.0123 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD21D6B0:01C53C59] ----Original Message---- >From: David Dindorp >Sent: 08 April 2005 16:14 >>> If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in >>> a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. >> >> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST > > Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple testcase, I would have. > Duh ;-). There's nothing _obvious_ about that at all. It would be a false inference on my part to try and deduce that, because you have not PPASTed before, you would necessarily be unable to do so in the future.[*] Furthermore, it seems to me that if you have some manhours to spend, but not the lifetimes you feel it would require to get to grips with debugging the problem at a deep level, then spending those hours trying to create a simple testcase might be the most productive use you could put them to. cheers, DaveK [*] Cf. "Problem of induction, The" and indeed http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bertrand+russell+inductivist+turkey&sourcei d=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org. mozilla:en-US:official (I feel the second entry, from swin.edu.au, tells it best) -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/