X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48627181.9080100@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:25:37 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing References: <01f201c8d657$ba3407d0$0401a8c0@SYS3> <486191F7.7010006@cygwin.com> <028301c8d6c7$f9b20a90$0401a8c0@SYS3> In-Reply-To: <028301c8d6c7$f9b20a90$0401a8c0@SYS3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 06/25/2008, David Spector wrote: > Larry, > > Thanks for the info. I think the maintainer of fontforge should have added > it to the cygwin setup as a standard package, with the appropriate > dependencies. That would have avoided the problem that I had (and more > people in the future will probably have with installing fontforge on > Windows). Agreed. We encourage this as well. It helps eliminate confusion. And while we highly encourage folks packaging things for Cygwin to become a Cygwin maintainer so their offerrings become part of the distribution, some have chosen not to do this but to still package things in a setup- compatible way. While this is not ideal, it does make it easier for users to point 'setup.exe' to these other servers and install packages directly from these servers, just like any other mirror. If fontforge was packaged and served this way, it very likely would have been easier for you too. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/