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: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:37:19 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin Message-ID: <20050128213719.GD13615@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20050125123925 DOT 04fbea60 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <6 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20050125231005 DOT 05a33c40 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <6 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20050126160850 DOT 057de990 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:09:26PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >I guess, part of the professionalism of a product, is to provide as much >meaningful information as possible, but also to account for the "cock-pit >errors" that commonly occur and give warnings concerning them. The adjective "meaningful" is a highly subjective one. Let's not go there. >It's often a helpful reminder for the newbie as well as the seasoned >user that "shift happens". I don't know who's supposed to be reminding these people of that but just so we don't wander into off-topic territory discussing what "professionalism" means and having everyone relate their "27 years of documentating so I know what I'm talking about", let me just say that I, as one of the Cygwin project managers, agree with Joshua's philosophy and don't want to see it change. (I feel that I have to keep a closer reign on this type of discussion since apparently I've been doing a poor job and letting all sorts of off-topic crap go on for far too long.) So, let's just let Joshua handle things the way he wants to and not have a discussion about whether we need to flesh out the documentation with concepts like managing multiple versions of software or reverting to older versions. cgf (who has more than 27 years of meaningful documentation writing experience) -- 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/