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From: "Karl M" <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A request?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:43:36 -0700
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>From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
>Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: A request?
>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:55:47 -0400
>
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:42:59PM -0700, Gord Wait wrote:
> >I'm a satisfied customer of the cygwin tools, and appreciate all the
> >effort put in to this free software package.  Thanks to cygwin I'm able
> >to use most of the benefits of a unix developers environment (cvs,
> >make, perl, rsh, ) on the windows network at work, for FPGA
> >development.
>
>Sorry but you are not a customer.  You're a user.  There is a subtle
>difference.  Being a customer implies some seller/buyer relationship
>which would entitle you to some kind of service from the seller.  Cygwin
>is offered as-is to you with nothing guaranteed other than you get the
>source.
>
> >I would like to request that the cygwin "distribution" move towards a
> >"versioned" release format, similar to how most linux distributions
> >run.  Perhaps this is more of an educate the dumb user (me) question,
> >but right now, it seems to me, if I tell my colleagues to go install
> >cygwin, that we'll end up (over time) with each of us with slightly
> >different versions of each of the parts of cygwin, as incremental
> >improvements are made and released by the cygwin team.
>
>This has come up before.  The basic problem is that no one is interested
>in expending the time or resources involved in such an endeavor.  This
>requires QA, release engineering, and maybe even developer committment.
>We have no one onboard who is willing to do such a thing.
>
>Or, if there is someone willing to do such a thing they have been
>wery wery quiet.
>
> >It would make for a much more consistent and manageable result if I
> >could say - go install cygwin version "5.5" for example, much in the
> >same way I can say, go install Slackware Linux 8.1
> >
> >If there is already a way I can cause a consistent installation for all
> >my co-workers, I apologize, and point me in the right direction!
>
>If you want predictable behavior, then you should probably burn a CD
>with the source code as well and pass it around.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>cgf
>
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