X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C8E4BB8.5090507@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:05:12 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin instabilities References: <4C8E3A4B.8030909@cygwin.com> <20100913173648.15137e2d0sfh16o0@webmail.df.eu> In-Reply-To: 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 9/13/2010 11:57 AM, Al wrote: >> 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. OK. Well without any specifics about a particular issue and/or point in time, there's really no way for anyone on this list to respond to this type of query. If someone finds something, the best way to handle the problem is to report it here following the guidelines of . -- 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? -- 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