Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3AEEF96E.33DE6505@lightbridge.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 13:59:10 -0400 From: Louis Bohm Reply-To: lbohm AT lightbridge DOT com Organization: Lightbridge Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Piper CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: When will cygwin ever be stable? References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 2 DOT 7 DOT 2 DOT 20010501102110 DOT 02e99390 AT san-francisco DOT beasys DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I do not know about the other points you made but I can tell you that the scroll bars do work when you are running rxvt. Maybe you should try that instead. Louis Andy Piper wrote: > Chris Faylor writes: > >What does "fairly broken" mean? I'm aware of only one problem which I > >announced a fix for a couple of days ago. > > It means that hitting C-c for anything but simple scenarios does not > interrupt the target process. My case is running java inside a shell script. > > > >the headers change the whole time so that trying to maintain anything > > >that builds under cygwin is a complete nightmare. > > > >What does "the headers change the whole time" mean? What specifically > > It means that each time I install a new version of w32api or the mingw > one's I have to fix XEmacs compilation in some way or other. > > >caused you problems? Was it the move of headers to /usr/include/w32api? > > That didn't help. My problem is not whether this was a good or bad thing to > do, but rather that it changed again (remember the move to the new headers > etc?) > > >FWIW, the 1.3.1 release of Cygwin was a major release. That's one of > >the reasons that we incremented the middle number. We expected > >problems. There are problems. We'll be making a 1.3.2 release soon. > > So what happened to the stable release in between? Was there a 1.2? > > >Whether it fixes your problems or not is unknown at this point since I > >have no clear idea what your problems are. Without specific feedback we > >can't fix specific problems, so your specific problems are not > >specifically fixed. Perhaps you might want to try a snapshot. > > I don't want to beta-test cygwin - I just want it to work. That's > fundamentally my issue. I suspect that you disagree with this and I suspect > that people feel the same way about XEmacs, but its my opinion and I'm > entitled to it :) > > My top 3 bugs: > > - C-c habitually breaks (i.e. does nothing) > > - cygwin term does not handle scrollbacks properly (this worked once but > has been broken for ever), do this: > build something to generate lots of output and then hit C-c to interrupt, > scrollback through the screen buffer by dragging the scrollbar with the > mouse or using a mousewheel. Then type - the screen buffer will habitually > not scrollback down to the bottom but instead insert your typing in the > middle of the output. > [I see from trying to reproduce this reliably that it is somewhat random] > > - headers moving and/or changing. > > andy > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- ЄЄКА`АКЄј,ИИ,јЄКА`АКЄјјЄКА`АКЄј,ИИ,јЄКА`АКЄјјЄКА`АКЄ ЄА`АSystems Manager and Tivoli Support Geek ЄА`АLightbridge, Inc ЄА`А67 South Bedford St. ЄА`АBurlington MA 01832 ЄА`А781.359.4795 mailto:lbohm AT lightbridge DOT com ЄА`Аhttp://www.lightbridge.com ЄА`АFree Tivoli scripts at: http://www.microgeek.com ЄЄКА`АКЄј,ИИ,јЄКА`АКЄјјЄКА`АКЄј,ИИ,јЄКА`АКЄјјЄКА`АКЄ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple