X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:50:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup-1.7.exe can't use I:\ for Local Package Directory Message-ID: <20091003205036.GA5207@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20091003142234 DOT 0e6f2b72 AT travel> <20091003184932 DOT GA24288 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20091003153048 DOT 2d5dbf27 AT corel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091003153048.2d5dbf27@corel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 03:30:48PM -0400, Ken Jackson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 02:22:34PM -0400, Ken Jackson wrote: >> >I had great difficulties installing 1.7 on Windows XP home edition >> >running in VirtualBox as I described here: >> > >> >> I'm just going to go on record and say that I'm not going to spend >> any time investigating problems reported to some random other web >> site even if the web site has the name "cygwin" in it. > >I just couldn't believe there wasn't a thriving active forum for >Cygwin users, when there is a such crying need. I begged and pleaded >all over the place for *someone* to create a Cygwin forum >*somewhere*, and finally Norv stepped up to answer the need. > >This email list is very good, but it has so much traffic that I can >only stand to be on it for a few days before I jump off it again. >But I need to use cygwin for my sanity at work, so I naturally have >the occasional problem for which I want a solution. And I enjoy >sharing an occasional solution. > >Forums are *much* better than email lists. You can come and go >easily. The archives and the active messages are right >there in one place. Email addresses aren't as easily harvested by >evil. You can add FAQs and tutorials that are more readily >associated with the posts than on a site separate from a list. The >format is common and pleasing. etc. I'm very well aware of what forums are. Personally, hate them. I like to use one interface for reading email-like communication so that I can use my familiar email client rather than someone's notion of a nifty web form. Or, alternately, I don't want to spend time figuring out how to plug my email client into a web forum. That's my personal opinion. I don't expect others to share that opinion and, since I'm very familar with how forums operate, I'm not going to be convinced otherwise. I just don't plan on expending even more time reading clueless (in the non-judgemental use of the word) questions in YA place. That doesn't mean that I expect that other cygwin maintainers will follow my lead. I'm just trying to be clear. I won't be clicking on a link which invites me to read a problem report on another site. That's all I plan to say on this subject. If anyone wants to start the standard "forums are better than email" discussion, I would suggest moving to cygwin-talk. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple