Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <006901c28ced$188396d0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <3DD4FCB5 DOT 5010800 AT umwelt-campus DOT de> <00c801c28caf$7439b6a0$78d96f83 AT pomello> <20021115153506 DOT GC2487 AT redhat DOT com> <00d601c28cde$728ee170$981e5340 AT bradshaw2k> Subject: Re: Problems with installer Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:22:26 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Mark Bradshaw wrote: > Here. Sorry if there is some confusion. Frankly, considering the > number of installs I think the confusion has been minimal. As a side > note I've many times been in conversation with a user and suggested > that it might be time to can the package as no longer necessary. > EVERY time they vehemently protest that the cygwin sshd install is > too hard/doesn't work/whatever. The bar to entry to a tight sshd > install under the cygwin installer may be too high for most newbies. > > Maybe as a compromise I can start using standard cygwin directories. > That seemed confusing, and would definitely hose up some people that > are used to my current structure, but I'd be willing if it's really > causing communal heartburn. I think that would just cause more confusion. I think the correct solution is either for setup to complain loudly if it finds NetworkSimplicity on the system, or for NetworkSimplicity to use a custom build of Cygwin, changed to coexist with the official releases. Or best of all, can the package - I'm unsure why setting up sshd causes so many problems for some people. Certainly its never misbehaved for me. Ultimately, I think newbies would be better off knowing that they are using part of Cygwin from the start, not having that fact hidden from them. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/