X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100913173648.15137e2d0sfh16o0@webmail.df.eu> References: <4C8E3A4B.8030909@cygwin.com> <20100913173648.15137e2d0sfh16o0@webmail.df.eu> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:57:08 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin instabilities From: Al To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 > These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source Sure it is related, but that doesn't answer my question. > Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are > exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now flooded with "my > setup works" and "mine too" posts, these numbers would not be No that is not the way to go. I think there are people which run Cygwin on more than 1 machine, so they have a personal estimation and experience. > representative. Users may have given up on Cygwin due to instabilities > without notifying the list. Others may run Cygwin so happily they never Right. Similar I can't report the bugs for people telling me, they don't use Cygwin, because of stability issues they encountered in the past. Al -- 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