From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3895 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2008 13:33:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 3886 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jun 2008 13:33:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from root.springtimesoftware.com (HELO root.springtimesoftware.com) (64.131.68.211) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:33:06 +0000 Received: from pool-96-233-110-124.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([96.233.110.124] helo=SYS3) by root.springtimesoftware.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KBV7L-00012L-H4 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:33:00 -0400 Message-ID: <028301c8d6c7$f9b20a90$0401a8c0@SYS3> Reply-To: "David Spector" From: "David Spector" To: References: <01f201c8d657$ba3407d0$0401a8c0@SYS3> <486191F7.7010006@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:43:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00538.txt.bz2 Thanks for your replies. Larry, Thanks for the info. I think the maintainer of fontforge should have added it to the cygwin setup as a standard package, with the appropriate dependencies. That would have avoided the problem that I had (and more people in the future will probably have with installing fontforge on Windows). Brian, Thanks for your thoughtful analysis of email vs. Web forum as methods for discussing things. I agree with some of your points, but not with others. Since I am opposed to flame wars in a realtime information channel like this one, let me just say that I disagree but respect your position, and leave it there. Perhaps the best solution would be for any information channel (like this mailing list) to offer a choice of either user interface. This could be done in some standard Open Source way, so no organization hosting a channel would have to do any additional programming. I consider this thread as completed, with thanks again to David Korn for his great help. David Spector -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/