X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:35:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin instabilities Message-ID: <20100913163523.GA25859@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C8E3A4B DOT 8030909 AT cygwin DOT com> <20100913173648 DOT 15137e2d0sfh16o0 AT webmail DOT df DOT eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:57:08PM +0200, Al wrote: >>These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source > >Sure it is related, but that doesn't answer my question. > >>Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are >>exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now flooded with >>"my setup works" and "mine too" posts, these numbers would not be > >No that is not the way to go. I think there are people which run >Cygwin on more than 1 machine, so they have a personal estimation and >experience. > >>representative. Users may have given up on Cygwin due to instabilities >>without notifying the list. Others may run Cygwin so happily they >>never > >Right. Similar I can't report the bugs for people telling me, they >don't use Cygwin, because of stability issues they encountered in the >past. You seem to be approaching this problem as if people will say "Ah! Stability issues! Right. Well, ok, here's what you need to know." If we knew of stability issues they would be fixed. Don't assume that since some nebulous person or persons couldn't get some version of Cygwin running it means that there are well-known problems that we will all clamor to proclaim. If you think that asking a group of strangers for help with a nebulously defined "instability" is really going to get you any useful responses then you must not be well-acquainted with open source. As a project lead, here's my advice: If you are concerned that Cygwin is unstable then buy support from Red Hat. Then you have a guaranteed recourse if something doesn't work. 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