X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:28:13 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: add -debuginfo packages In-Reply-To: <20090821001702.GA15308@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <6910a60908041158p10fa632cvc2f21524e33b74ce@mail.gmail.com> <4A8DDEE8.2050606@users.sourceforge.net> <20090821001702.GA15308@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: > How many people here are capable of firing up a debugger to decode > problems? A lot more if they don't have to go through the pain of downloading source code and figuring out how to correctly build the package. You'd get better bug reports faster I think. How many times have you requested a more refined test case becuase you didn't want to have to build perl in order to debug it? -- Brian Ford Staff Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple