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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:39:47 -0000
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> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the
> > cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com.  The result seemed
> > to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files
> > directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than running
> > setup.exe.
> >
> > So, that experiment was a bad idea.  I turned off access again.  Yet, I
> > still have the feeling that many people are downloading packages
> > directly (from mirrors I suppose) and then we get to experience the
> > maddening "I downloaded foo and it gives me an error about missing bar.
> > What in the world could possibly be the problem????"
> >
> > Can anyone offer any explanation about this?  Or maybe convince me that
> > I'm wrong in noticing this trend?  I suppose that it is possible that
> > we are now hitting a newer stupider brand of user who just can't be
> > bothered to read the cygwin web site and click on a link to download
> > but I'm wondering if there is another explanation.  Maybe there is
> > a popular web page out there with wrong advice or something...
> >
> > cgf
>
> Well, guess what comes up first on a Google search for "cygwin install"?
> See for yourself: <http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+install> (just in
> case, the first match I get is
<http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/basic.htm>,
> last updated on March 24, 2000). :-(
> I don't know if there's anything that can be done about it, though...

Well, Gary (Gary R. Van Sickle) is the maintainer of that page, so....


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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