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: <57050-220031531193110722@M2W082.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: subensky AT lvcm DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, maxb AT ukf DOT net Subject: Re: CygWin Installation Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:31:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jan 2003 19:31:10.0763 (UTC) FILETIME=[4F333FB0:01C2C95F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h0VJVJ026645 Sy, Thanks for all you laconic input. Too bad you couldn't spend some of the time you saved with these breif email messages to the list looking at the email archives that discusses this issue at length. If you had, you would see why Cygwin doesn't install in the form you want. That would've removed the need for you to contact the list at all, unless of course you wanted to join the effort to improve the current installation procedure. Of course, that might take allot of time. So you could just look at the FAQ entry: How do I just get everything? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC14 Oh, if we could've all just saved all this time! What a different world it would be! ;-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Sy or Ursula Bensky subensky AT lvcm DOT com Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:57:08 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, maxb AT ukf DOT net Subject: Re: CygWin Installation The installation would be much simplified if it was available as a tarball or.ZIP file. Sy Bensky On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:52 AM, Max Bowsher wrote: > subensky wrote: >> In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen anything >> as convoluted and >> difficult to use as your CygWin download/installer. > > And the point of this email was ... ? > > Constructive criticism is welcome. Useless whining is not. > > > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- 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/