X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:26:56 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygheap base mismatch detected Message-ID: <20060220052656.GA26280@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:02:10PM -0800, Mark Geisert wrote: >Forgive me for possibly reading more into your text than you intended >and thus responding inappropriately, but, Cygwin is an all-volunteer >and essentially non-managed project. (No offense Christopher :-) There >are no *guarantees* about anything. If Cygwin works for you, that's >great. It is possible though that it won't work for you and for any of >various reasons specific to each volunteer, can't or won't be made to >work for you in any particular timeframe. The "can't" term is likely to be operative for this particular case. >How to present the situation to your management is something we can't >answer. I would say, though, perhaps your management could consider a >Cygwin support contract with Red Hat in order to get fixes for problems >you run into. It might be worth it if Cygwin is truly the only way to >accomplish your technical goals. A Red Hat support contract is not a guarantee of a fix for every end-user problem. Changing Cygwin to deal with this issue, as it has been described, is likely to not fall under normal support and would undoubtedly require additional $$$ for development. cgf -- 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/