X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Steve Holden Subject: Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:14:29 -0400 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <4C6E81B0.6020509@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <4C6E81B0.6020509@redhat.com> 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 8/20/2010 9:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/20/2010 06:00 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >> >> My intention was to highlight the fact that issues will (eventually) be >> re-raised thanks to the phenomenal group memory of this list. But of >> course the issue might have had attention (or at least been resolved as >> "wontfix" with appropriate discussion) in an issue tracker. > > Or, more likely, sat for four years with no change in status, because > the same person who hasn't had time to fix the tex package also hasn't > had time to visit a tracker web page. > Yes, ultimately it's all down to the availability of effort. We have similar problems in the Python world (where we use roundup). Though a small team has recently started to address the question of stalled issues, there just isn't enough effort to get to everything that comes in and still keep the language moving forward. I'd like to take this opportunity to say how much I personally appreciate the availability of Cygwin - I use it daily, and it makes the computing experience on Windows far more bearable and productive than it otherwise would be. I'll happily overlook the occasional crabby reply to a thoughtless comment, given the amazing work that the team collectively produces. regards Steve -- Steve Holden Chairman, Python Software Foundation The Python Community Conference http://python.org/psf/ Watch PyCon on video now! http://pycon.blip.tv/ -- 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