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 Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small From: Robert Collins To: Andrew DeFaria Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3E67D389.9030803@Salira.com> References: <20030306124038.46579.qmail@web40210.mail.yahoo.com> <3E67CD96.2060605@Salira.com> <00f701c2e431$db461990$78d96f83@pomello> <20030306225245.GA13157@redhat.com> <3E67D389.9030803@Salira.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-paSwCK6RCuDOjesGnI6E" Organization: Message-Id: <1047025479.1076.20.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 07 Mar 2003 19:24:39 +1100 --=-paSwCK6RCuDOjesGnI6E Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:02, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote >=20 > > And, different agendas as well. No one in free software has to work on=20 > > things that they don't want to work on. > > > > And, the theory that "You know how to do it. You're doing all this=20 > > other stuff, why don't you do this too?" doesn't really sound right to = me. >=20 > Chris do not view this as a justification for a "consumer" to demand=20 > that a "producer" work for him. Rather I was trying to point out why a=20 > "consumer" or a "semi-hacker" for that matter, might be reluctanct to=20 > dive into a dev/patch project that they might view "over there head".=20 If they aren't willing to dive in, then they still have options other than asking for charity... *) Contribute something for the feature. I.e. 'I'll write up a web page detailing how to use various aspects of setup, IF you will make the chooser resizable for me'. *) Contract someone else to implement the feature for them. "I'll put $20 into a pool for the programmer that completes the feature". > IOW I don't think that just because it's Open Source and you *can* fix=20 > it yourself, that a flippant "Fix it yourself!" response is warranted. Conversely, neither is "Fix it for me!". Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-paSwCK6RCuDOjesGnI6E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+aFdHI5+kQ8LJcoIRAkTHAJsF89Q5n5DTgXnnrFCI14J6CcQZlQCeP4D0 obAZ9vf+etl3fwY1Nj4M4N0= =HxSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-paSwCK6RCuDOjesGnI6E--