From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2911 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2005 15:28:32 -0000 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 Malingering List Received: (qmail 2856 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2005 15:28:23 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:28:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5GFSHW3006542 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:28:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:37:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: cyg/lib DLL naming In-Reply-To: <20050616151319.GE10382@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <1118925021.42b170ddc88c7@email.fit.vutbr.cz> <20050616124431.GG3522@calimero.vinschen.de> <20050616151319.GE10382@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00441.txt.bz2 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:44:31PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 16 14:30, Peciva 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. Were they? There's another interpretation, too: "If I skip all offensive words /that come to mind/, I have to..." > Igor, go wash your mouth out with soap! Now, what do web services have to do with this discussion? > This thread was the classic example of "I'm trying to port my > application. Please change the cygwin distribution to make that > possible." Heh, why isn't this phrasing in the FAQ? With a short answer of "No." :-) Note that this isn't even a porting question -- the application is just buggy since it looks for a hard-coded DLL name to load dynamically. The application itself isn't even a Cygwin application. Yikes. > 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. Well, they *could* require the user to temporarily uninstall Cygwin... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT