From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990219202153.A32178@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: < 8525671D.00525F37.00@D51MTA10.pok.ibm.com >; from setera@us.ibm.com on Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 09:00:04AM -0600
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 09:00:04AM -0600, setera@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>>Currently, Corinna, Mumit, and a couple of other people are the only
>>outside contributers to the project. Everyone else seems to be in
>>"Cygwin doesn't work the way I think it should when I run program X.
>>Here's the error message." mode.
>>
>>I'm collecting the error messages and hope to investigate problems but
>>the reality is that this is a volunteer effort for DJ and me. Our
>>real jobs don't offer much time for tracking down net problems.
>
>I can certainly understand your frustrations. In my GIMP work, I've had a
>heck of a time with some hanging problems which I've reported to you. I
>report them to you and DJ not because I *expect* you to jump and fix them,
>but because I am clueless on how to fix them myself. I *have* downloaded
>the source code and *have* attempted to understand the infrastructure
>enough to solve the problems. In my case at least, if there were more
>documentation on the internals of the winsup code, I might be able to solve
>some problems on my own. Unfortunately, I think with the exception of a
>few people (you, DJ, Sergey, etc) most do not have a good enough
>understanding of the internals of winsup to really be able to help out. On
>the other hand, I try not to complain about things either.
It is not impossible to figure out how things work with cygwin. I know
because I did it. You may not remember, or maybe you weren't around,
but I started out as a net contributer before Cygnus hired me.
Cygwin is certainly considerably less complicated than Linux ever was
and people have managed to make considerable contributions to the Linux
kernel.
As I said, if you can't contribute, I certainly understand but, it's a fact of
life that things are not going to change quickly with 2.5 people working on the
project, especially when most of those people have day jobs.
cgf
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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990219202153.A32178@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.aWsIfClVTx2ykYrPJZj4qEzsXmDTugN2dzkRq8WRbKw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8525671D.00525F37.00@D51MTA10.pok.ibm.com>
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 09:00:04AM -0600, setera@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>>Currently, Corinna, Mumit, and a couple of other people are the only
>>outside contributers to the project. Everyone else seems to be in
>>"Cygwin doesn't work the way I think it should when I run program X.
>>Here's the error message." mode.
>>
>>I'm collecting the error messages and hope to investigate problems but
>>the reality is that this is a volunteer effort for DJ and me. Our
>>real jobs don't offer much time for tracking down net problems.
>
>I can certainly understand your frustrations. In my GIMP work, I've had a
>heck of a time with some hanging problems which I've reported to you. I
>report them to you and DJ not because I *expect* you to jump and fix them,
>but because I am clueless on how to fix them myself. I *have* downloaded
>the source code and *have* attempted to understand the infrastructure
>enough to solve the problems. In my case at least, if there were more
>documentation on the internals of the winsup code, I might be able to solve
>some problems on my own. Unfortunately, I think with the exception of a
>few people (you, DJ, Sergey, etc) most do not have a good enough
>understanding of the internals of winsup to really be able to help out. On
>the other hand, I try not to complain about things either.
It is not impossible to figure out how things work with cygwin. I know
because I did it. You may not remember, or maybe you weren't around,
but I started out as a net contributer before Cygnus hired me.
Cygwin is certainly considerably less complicated than Linux ever was
and people have managed to make considerable contributions to the Linux
kernel.
As I said, if you can't contribute, I certainly understand but, it's a fact of
life that things are not going to change quickly with 2.5 people working on the
project, especially when most of those people have day jobs.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-19 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-19 7:00 setera
[not found] ` < 8525671D.00525F37.00@D51MTA10.pok.ibm.com >
1999-02-19 17:21 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
1999-02-22 13:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` setera
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-02-22 14:28 Earnie Boyd
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-02-16 7:41 Earnie Boyd
[not found] ` < 19990216154134.3413.rocketmail@send104.yahoomail.com >
1999-02-16 17:52 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990216205243.L16511@cygnus.com >
1999-02-16 18:18 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-17 2:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
[not found] ` < 36CA92B5.844635AA@cityweb.de >
1999-02-17 8:07 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-17 13:46 ` J. J. Farrell
1999-02-28 23:02 ` J. J. Farrell
1999-02-17 9:36 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 17817.990217@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-17 10:07 ` DJ Delorie
[not found] ` < 199902171807.NAA16764@envy.delorie.com >
1999-02-17 19:16 ` Larry Hall
[not found] ` < 3.0.5.32.19990217221306.0162b070@pop.ma.ultranet.com >
1999-02-17 19:19 ` DJ Delorie
[not found] ` < 199902180318.WAA20394@envy.delorie.com >
1999-02-17 20:13 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02 ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-17 13:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-19 2:30 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
[not found] ` < 17776.990218@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-19 6:36 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-02-16 5:27 Earnie Boyd
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-02-16 4:24 Peter Kabal
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Peter Kabal
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