From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060810005356.GC8336@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebdnsr$fu$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:34:02PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:38:47PM -0700, infoterror wrote:
>>>Under windows, programs are installed by default in "C:\Program Files."
>>>cygwin's preferred "c:\cygwin" is foolish and makes an unnecessary mess
>>>of installations.
>>
>>I disagree. Not all packages install in "c:\Program Files" and putting
>>Cygwin's root directory there would mean extra typing, potential
>>"filename with spaces" problems, and, most importantly, it would mean 10
>>extra characters eaten from the MAX_PATH limit. Also, as is pointed out
>>later in this thread, there is a whole filesystem underneath the
>>c:\cygwin directory. Right or wrong, I've always considered Cygwin to
>>be sort of a parallel to the Windows directory.
>>
>>You can, of course, choose your own location, however. I don't see why
>>this should be a big issue for anyone who installs Cygwin. If they know
>>about "c:\Program Files" and think that's the place that cygwin should
>>go, they are welcome to put things there.
>>
>>What kind of problems do you think are being caused by installing to
>>"c:\cygwin" and/or what kind of problems would be solved by installing
>>to "c:\Program Files\cygwin"?
>
>Whew. Thanks for wording that better than what I was managing. :-)
Thanks.
So what kind of response would you expect to my mail? More "thin
intelligence", "foolish" responses?
>...And for better or worse, Cygwin isn't breaking any rules Microsoft
>themselves haven't broken.
Yeah there is that and I resisted the urge to say something about
foolish consistencies, too.
cgf
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2006-08-09 22:34 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-10 0:07 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-08-10 0:37 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-10 9:58 ` Dave Korn
2006-08-10 12:21 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-08-10 0:54 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2006-08-10 15:15 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-10 16:04 ` vIMprovement? (Was Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found) Igor Peshansky
2006-08-10 17:45 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-10 19:53 ` Cygintl-3.dll was not found Christopher Faylor
2006-08-10 20:24 ` Dave Korn
2006-08-10 20:35 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-10 23:01 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-10 20:25 ` mwoehlke
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2006-11-01 23:46 ` Cary Jamison
2006-11-02 1:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-11-02 1:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-11-02 19:46 ` Dave Korn
2006-11-03 16:44 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-11-02 1:44 ` Brian Dessent
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2006-11-12 22:39 ` Dave Korn
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