X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:42:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installer improvements Message-ID: <20100407164259.GA25014@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4BBB2836.3000601@gmail.com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208DEF24522@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4BBC9056.3030400@bopp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:31:47PM +0300, wefwef wefwef wrote: >On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:01:58AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>All that said, the tone of the requester is not helping the setup >>maintainer or the rest of the list really sympathize with his position. >>?His points wouldn't be so bad if he merely asked for features and >>improvements rather than demand them and belittle the maintainers when >>they disagree. ?Of course, his ideas might be accepted even quicker if >>they were presented as patches. ?Cygwin is a volunteer effort after >>all. > >Jeremy, I've merely made some suggestions, I certainly didn't or didn't >intend to demand anything. The responses to my suggestions did not >appear to be based on their merit, rather on the fact that I made them, >and I replied in the same tone that the suggestions were met with. Attempts at revisionist history aside, if you'd care to offer patches to setup they would be objectively considered. cgf -- 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