Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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?

Are you asking if I thought your response was reasonable and 
non-inflammatory (yes; it helped /me/ step back and start thinking again 
:-)), or if I think infoterror is a troll? Or do I just not understand 
the question?

>> ...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.

Right, I was also busy doing that, only all I was managing to write was 
troll food. Fortunately I realized that, and gave up.

(Oh, look, *there's* one of the signatures that was still at 0 uses :-))

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Matthew
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