From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616151319.GE10382@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050616124431.GG3522@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:44:31PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 16 14:30, Pe?iva Jan wrote:
>> > As AGO pointed out, searching for libfreetype.dll is non-portable,
>> > dangerous, and silly.
>> [...]
>> If I skip all offensive words, I have to thank you for the discussion.
>
>Oh my, Igor, why are you so offensive all the time? May a hippo fall
>on you(*)!
For the record, I think the offensive words were along the lines of:
OP>You are missing the point.
Igor>No, I think you are missing the point.
Igor, go wash your mouth out with soap!
This thread was the classic example of "I'm trying to port my
application. Please change the cygwin distribution to make that
possible."
It reminds me of a commercial we have in this area where someone is
trying to sell their house so they ask the police to temporarily reroute
the interstate highway by the house so they get maximum visibility.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-16 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1118925021.42b170ddc88c7@email.fit.vutbr.cz>
2005-06-16 13:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-16 14:42 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 14:48 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 15:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-16 15:14 ` Brian Dessent
2005-06-16 15:28 ` One Angry User
2005-06-16 16:24 ` Brian Dessent
2005-06-16 15:20 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17 3:29 ` Charles Wilson
2005-06-17 9:22 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17 9:58 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-17 16:08 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-17 16:32 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17 19:24 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-18 0:07 ` Shankar Unni
2005-06-18 6:49 ` Cary Jamison
2005-06-20 1:11 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-22 9:27 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 15:17 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-06-16 15:37 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 16:26 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 16:28 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 23:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-16 16:29 ` Christopher Faylor
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