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 X-Spam-Filter: check_local@alphatech.com 4.4(020923:1754) http://digitalanswers.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: cygwin without Win32 Reply-To: sds@gnu.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold Organization: disorganization References: <20040120171336.GB25428@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:44:38 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) In-Reply-To: <20040120171336.GB25428@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:13:36 -0500") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: gmane.os.cygwin The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.os.cygwin as well. > * Christopher Faylor [2004-01-20 12:13:36 -0500]: > >>> > I wonder how close to an approximation of reality a simple >>> > poll/form on the cygwin.com front page would generate? >>> >>> I wonder if running a script across the list archive to extract >>> all the cycheck output and counting the different systems that way >>> would produce a result with any meaning to it at all? >> >>Perhaps only which systems have more problems (or which systems have more >>consciencious users that actually read ). > > I guess I'll keep making the observation that any poll would be > worthless as long as people seem to be ignoring that fact and still > coming up with alternate ways of polling. download count for setup.exe should be a reliable statistics. > We are not dropping support for older Windows systems. how about the following maintenance nightmare: detect SFU at configure time and use them as detected, then distribute two versions: traditional win32 for older systems and SFU-based for NT-derivatives. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k If abortion is murder, then oral sex is cannibalism. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/