From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28789 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2006 15:15:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 28781 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2006 15:15:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:15:41 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GBCFV-0001bE-G1 for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:15:05 +0200 Received: from 65.207.213.226 ([65.207.213.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:15:05 +0200 Received: from mwoehlke by 65.207.213.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:15:05 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: 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> <20060810005356.GC8336@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20060810005356.GC8336@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00122.txt.bz2 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 :-)) -- Matthew vIMprove your life! Now on version 7!