X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:57:32 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A regrettable oversight In-Reply-To: <20061215144842.GD3889@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <035101c72032$07894a00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20061215135533.GA3889@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20061215144842.GD3889@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:21:38AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:36:28AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >>>On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > >>>>On 15 December 2006 09:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>>>On Dec 14 22:16, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>blush< Don't get all mushy, now, it's embarrasin'. > >>>>> > >>>>>Hehehe, WJM, you know... > >>>> > >>>>That's good to know. For a moment there I thought we were all going to > >>>>have to start saying WJN! > >>> > >>>"We're Just Nasty"(tm). > >> > >>Hey, I like it! That can be our new slogan for 2007. > > > >Yep, just in time for the Vista release... We'll need it, too. > > Well, so far, it looks like Vista will imply a "CJN" since Corinna seems > insistent on punishing people who use Vista by making Cygwin hard to use > there despite Microsoft's laudable efforts in making sure that we are > all snug and secure. > > It seems to me that if Cygwin doesn't want to wither up and blow away, > someone should be working hard on getting it to work correctly on Vista! > I am not a Vista programmer but I really don't understand what all of > the fuss is about. Microsoft has released many versions of Windows > since Windows 1.0 and they are constantly working on improving their OS. > If Cygwin can't adapt to Microsoft innovation then maybe we should all > either be moving to Linux or MinGW. > > I hope this will be accepted in the spirit in which it was intended. When is that new release of "fortune" coming out? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/