X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4BB9E481.8090706@gmail.com> References: <4BB8C309.60704@gmail.com> <4BB9D42E.40509@gmail.com> <4BB9E481.8090706@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:40:02 +0300 Received: by 10.216.91.12 with SMTP id g12mr250090wef.77.1270478402898; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: cygintl-8.dll was not found From: wefwef wefwef To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > On 05/04/2010 13:43, wefwef wefwef wrote: > >> No, I was advised to do this to get round a nasty bug in the installer. > > =A0No, you were advised to do this to work around the fully correct behav= iour > of the installer in that it pays attention to your existing installation = when Do you think it should pay attention to the existing installation when it is downloading to an entirely different directory to create an entirely separate installation? I would class this as undesirable behaviour whether it is by design or not. > you run it, exactly like it is supposed to. =A0Your persistent misdescrip= tion of > "not behaving how I hoped it would despite the behaviour I hoped for not = being > documented anywhere" as a "bug" is egregious. The cygwin setup program has some obvious gui design flaws - a two year old can see that. It is a disaster from a usability point of view. > >> I suppose in your world, it's impossible that the installer has bugs, >> or usability problems as it quite clearly does. > > =A0You have asserted this, but failed to show it so far. > >> So based on the fact that it worked ok =A0for you, then the installer >> has no problems at all, and any problems anyone has with it is the >> fault of the user. Wow, that's a very simplistic view of software you >> have. > > =A0It's pretty deterministic. =A0If it behaves differently for you as it = does for > me, that's because there is something different either in the procedures = we > followed or in the environment on the machines that we are following those > procedures on. =A0This is why absolutely fully-detailed step-by-step > descriptions are essential. >> Dave, I gave you the full description, > I found it anything but deterministic, producing different results almost every time I ran it. That means the it's either got bugs, or it's so badly designed that mistakes are almost inevitable, either way it's a fault with the installer. cheers Chris -- 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