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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:28:37 -0800
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> But when a feature is requested a couple of times a month 
> independently by many people, it gets a bit tedious to reply "it's 
> being worked on (in our copious free time)" [this is not to say that 
> I'm the one working on it]. People requesting features should first 
> check whether that feature has been requested, so as to avoid 
> rehashing the obvious --that's elementary politeness.

I find it a bit tedious to check quite frankly. (*)

> Perhaps we should have a "known bugs/issues for setup" document 
> somewhere, with "resizable package chooser window" in its 
> well-deserved prime spot.

Yes. It would be nice if there were such easily accessable and promently 
displayed things on the Cygwin site.

* Another problem that often gets me is that every site is different, 
with different semantics and methodologies of searching and finding the 
necessary information. Personally I prefer a prodominate "Search" link 
to a good search engine returning meaningful results for information on 
the site. Site's are often jammed back with information and many times 
cluttered. Searching for "search" on Cygwin's main page yeilds only 
"Setup Package Search", hardly where I'd expect to find information 
about setup.exe (rather about the packages that setup.exe offers). So 
now I have to read through the page looking for candidates for searching 
this site...

Look I'm not saying it's impossible and I can eventually dig around to 
find the right information - but can you understand where people might 
be a tad frustrated trying to check beforehand.



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