Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Chris Game Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Setup query Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:59:51 +0100 Organization: . Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20020630122544.44223.qmail@web21008.mail.yahoo.com> <5930-Mon01Jul2002112151+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <8151-Tue02Jul2002194012+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: m137-mp1.cvx1-c.lee.dial.ntli.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025686757 24274 62.252.236.137 (3 Jul 2002 08:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:59:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 In an earlier post, David Starks-Browning said... > > And more practically, the proper place for the explanation is not in > > the FAQ but on a pop-up box accessible from the setup screen. Keep > > the information near where it's needed. Cygwin may be fun to play > > with, but only if you like puzzles and have the time to unravel them. > > For real-world users it's like running a set of tools held together > > with baler twine - and each time one of them updates you have to undo > > and remake the baler twine connections all over again! > > Then don't use it. Or provide patches. I like using it! And I'm too thick to understand or provide patches. C. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/