From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24453 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2015 09:25:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24442 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jan 2015 09:25:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: iport-acv2-out.ucsd.edu Received: from iport-acv2-out.ucsd.edu (HELO iport-acv2-out.ucsd.edu) (132.239.0.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:25:08 +0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgFAP60p1SE7/kU/2dsb2JhbABcgwaBKoMFySYCgQcWAQEBAQEBfIQNAQUjDwFWCxgCAiYCAlcZG4gRqg6QOoNGAQEBAQEFAQEBAQEBHIEhjl0WglIugRMFiUuNPYYEi0wihA9OgkMBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AmgFAP60p1SE7/kU/2dsb2JhbABcgwaBKoMFySYCgQcWAQEBAQEBfIQNAQUjDwFWCxgCAiYCAlcZG4gRqg6QOoNGAQEBAQEFAQEBAQEBHIEhjl0WglIugRMFiUuNPYYEi0wihA9OgkMBAQE Received: from act-bufferout-a1.ucsd.edu ([132.239.249.20]) by iport-acv2-out.ucsd.edu with ESMTP; 03 Jan 2015 01:25:07 -0800 Received: from [192.168.0.103] (cpe-66-27-122-179.san.res.rr.com [66.27.122.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: rcunningham@ad.ucsd.edu) by act-bufferout-a1.ucsd.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68E71FAFDD for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2015 01:25:06 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <54A7A26E.7090801@blankersfamily.com> References: <54A6FDB8.9070106@blankersfamily.com> <54A766A7.7020609@cygwin.com> <54A7A26E.7090801@blankersfamily.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3 From: rcunningham@ucsd.edu Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:25:00 -0000 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Message-ID: <83E13E19-3E7A-446B-82DB-A331A2F84D43@ucsd.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On January 3, 2015 12:03:58 AM PST, Laurens Blankers wrote: >I am not arguing that the solution should be discarded, I am arguing >that the way the transition was handled, or not handled actually, it >not >worthy of being called engineering, development, or even programming. Strong words, but absolutely correct. Transitions affecting the user experience should be gradual, not violent. This was an unnecessarily violent transition with much breakage. Revert, replan, redeploy. -BobC -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/