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 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:21:42 +1000 (EST) From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au Subject: Ideas re problem reporting To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20030716002142.E1F2434381@nevin.research.canon.com.au> On 22 May, Sam Edge wrote: > In addition, you are likely to get little help here with any problem > unless you installed cygwin via the "official" setup.exe that you can > get via the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://www.cygwin.com/ > web site. If this is a common occurrence (installing but bypassing setup.exe somehow), then maybe it should finish by adding a registry entry to say it did the install (and whether partial or full), so that problem reports that include the system info would let you know this. Perhaps even a bug reporting script that asked the questions you want answered, and ran cygcheck etc. (basically, automating as much of the http://cygwin.com/problems.html procedure as far as possible), might be worthwhile. If people think it's a good idea, I might have a go at one this weekend. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/