From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15524 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2006 00:54:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 15259 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2006 00:53:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-229.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.229) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:53:57 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 188BD13C042; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:54:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found Message-ID: <20060810005356.GC8336@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <58fb98730601070837k26ad68f5l@mail.gmail.com> <43BFEFB9.EA24C5B4@dessent.net> <5718434.post@talk.nabble.com> <003001c6bb9a$4e15b140$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <5732487.post@talk.nabble.com> <20060809210958.GA3815@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 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