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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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <58fb98730601070837k26ad68f5l@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <43BFEFB9.EA24C5B4@dessent.net>
     [not found]   ` <5718434.post@talk.nabble.com>
     [not found]     ` <003001c6bb9a$4e15b140$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
     [not found]       ` <5732487.post@talk.nabble.com>
     [not found]         ` <20060809210958.GA3815@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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
     [not found]     ` <7022170.post@talk.nabble.com>
     [not found]       ` <7042419.post@talk.nabble.com>
     [not found]         ` <20061028055933.GA19517@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
     [not found]           ` <7065394.post@talk.nabble.com>
     [not found]             ` <20061029221805.GA1057@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
     [not found]               ` <7106666.post@talk.nabble.com>
     [not found]                 ` <20061101221317.GA3677@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
     [not found]                   ` <7124473.post@talk.nabble.com>
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
     [not found] <7308368.post@talk.nabble.com>
2006-11-12 22:39 ` Dave Korn

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