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: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:39:43 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Bug: link.exe Message-ID: <20050105013943.GA3372@efn.org> References: <41C9ED30 DOT 6000709 AT xilinx DOT com> <20041223093516 DOT GB317 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <41D24B6D DOT 8060505 AT xilinx DOT com> <20041229072512 DOT GB21682 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <41DAC93A DOT 6060504 AT xilinx DOT com> <20050104221201 DOT GA4635 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <41DB1832 DOT 2010209 AT xilinx DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DB1832.2010209@xilinx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:26:58PM -0700, Isaac Foraker wrote: > I am, however, greatly disappointed at how negatively certain members of > this list treat people who provide feedback. Try to ignore it. There are others out there just ignoring it too. > Not being able to keep up > with the volume of the list, I don't always catch that upgrading Cygwin > will break my build configurations. In future, I am inclined to not > report new problems after upgrading. There are certain list members who > seem to have a deep insight into Cygwin, and rather than sharing, they > lambast those users who do not have the time to make Cygwin a major part > of their lives. Not all of us have the time to review several months > worth of list archives to find what we need. That just plain sucks. I'm not sure what you expect in this situation. cygwin is growing. More and more packages are being added/updated, many of which add more things to /usr/bin. This can be expected to continue, and without explicit notification of each new filename. In a situation where you can (and ought to) expect conflicts between /usr/bin and other directories in your path, it behooves you to not wait for each potential conflict to actually occur, but rather to order your path more sensibly. If necessary, set up a new directory to put at the beginning, with links or copies of whatever you want to take precedence. Is there some other issue that I'm missing here? > >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:50:02AM -0700, Isaac Foraker wrote: > >>That's a really nice attitude. I don't expect anyone to bend over > >>backwards, but a little QC would be nice. If you would prefer that > >>professionals using Cygwin with commercial configurations do not provide > >>feedback, I suggest you update the fact and just say so. Quality Control? I don't see how that comes into it. See 'cygwin is growing' above. -- 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/