Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/03/16:16:15
Sorry. I fat fingered this message before I had an opportunity to
proofread it or decide if I really wanted to send it.
So, I misspelled somet things, most notably, "Kazuhiro"'s name.
I also left some thoughts unfinished.
You can all ignore it, if you want. I'm not expecting anyone to
do anything or even be able to do anything.
I also appreciate the effort that people manage to put into
cygwin-developers. It just gets overwhelming sometimes.
cgf
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I've tried to hold off sending this email but I thought it was
>probably time to share.
>
>I'm getting discouraged about the state of cygwin development.
>
>Lately, this mailing list as devolved into a bug reporting mailing list.
>There is little actual development or fixing going on. Instead, there
>standard message goes something like either
>
>"I don't have time to track this down but my machine catches on fire
>when I type 'ls'. I'm just sending this message in case it helps
>someone else."
>
>or, slightly better variation 2:
>
>"I noticed that typing 'pwd' deletes most of the files in my /tmp
>directory. So, I spent the last several days tracking this down.
>Here's an strace of how it fails. I really don't understand why it's
>happening but I hope that someone else will understand it and be able to
>fix it."
>
>What I'm getting from all of this is that cygwin is just too complicated
>for anyone besides me, Corinna, and Egor and Kazurhiro to understand.
>If one of us isn't able to fix the problem, it just doesn't get fixed.
>
>I don't know what to do about this. It is getting so that I don't even
>want to read this mailing list. There is sure to be a bug here that someone
>has found intractable.
>
>I have to wonder how something like linux ever got off the ground. These days
>it seems like Linux Torvalds doesn't have to be the sole person who understands
>how signals work. There are a number of other people who understand the linux
>kernel very well.
>
>And, before everyone sends lots of speculation about why this is so wrt
>cygwin, please don't bother. I'm really not interested in theories of
>behavior. I'm just tired of doing it all myself.
>
>I'm also not interested in hearing that it's all to hard because the code
>is not commented or the algorithms are obscure.
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