X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Adam Dinwoodie To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: RE: How to keep a dependency from [continually] appearing in setup Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:12:31 +0000 Deferred-Delivery: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:12:00 +0000 Message-ID: References: <50185716.8050504@cornell.edu> <50191B67.5010106@cs.utoronto.ca> <50192B7B.5060501@cornell.edu> <50193AA8.8050307@cs.utoronto.ca> <50197B86.9060308@cornell.edu> <501A645C.8030303@cs.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <501A645C.8030303@cs.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q72CFAfH023931 Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 02/08/2012 5:14 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> Inconsistency harms least astonishment, and harming least astonishment >> makes me very sad. >While I agree with you completely, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#MSFTEU. >Maybe they can make an exception "just this once" ... Aha! How did I miss that one!? But unless we're occasionally consistent, we'll be consistently inconsistent, and users will consistently expect our consistence to be inconsistent, with a consistent result of unsurprised users when their Cygwin experience consistently consists of inconsistencies. Okay, I'll stop now. -- 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