* butt-retarded cygwin developers @ 2012-06-10 18:21 Christopher Faylor 2012-06-10 23:01 ` JonY 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Christopher Faylor @ 2012-06-10 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-talk Wow: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022 That discussion sort of belies the intent of the site: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html I did ask that a discussion about apt-cyg (or whatever it's called) be started in the cygwin list. Apparently a lot of people use it. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: butt-retarded cygwin developers 2012-06-10 18:21 butt-retarded cygwin developers Christopher Faylor @ 2012-06-10 23:01 ` JonY 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: JonY @ 2012-06-10 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-talk [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 956 bytes --] On 6/11/2012 02:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Wow: > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085022 > > That discussion sort of belies the intent of the site: > > http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html > > I did ask that a discussion about apt-cyg (or whatever it's called) be > started in the cygwin list. Apparently a lot of people use it. > Just glanced through the discussions, sounds like the blind leading the blind. To summarize the discussion: Something about users setting up some apt thing simply because they didn't know setup.exe could add packages. Gow is advertized as a Cygwin replacement, IMHO a poor replacement if it aims to follow in the gnuwin32 footsteps. I also like how they mentioned MSYS+MinGW32 is a capable replacement for Cygwin if somebody needed GCC on Windows. This sort of massive misunderstanding is why I tend to shy away from web 2.0 forums, is this called eternal September? [-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 196 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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