From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23829 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 20:43:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 23822 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 20:43:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.30.22.225) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 20:43:28 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 15E441B8E7; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:44:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:43:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Packaging software built with cygwin Message-ID: <20030205204415.GA30513@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030204194653.A5738@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20030204204803.A6191@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20030205033246.GA4959@redhat.com> <20030205111822.B9661@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20030205175543.GB17331@redhat.com> <20030205125545.A10690@thebrain.conmicro.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030205125545.A10690@thebrain.conmicro.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00355.txt.bz2 Cutting through the noise: 1) In an open source, volunteer project there are no guarantees that anything will be fixed. We do the best we can given our interests and time. However, you should be reporting cygwin bugs to the cygwin mailing list if you want the possibility of getting them fixed. You can use http://cygwin.com/bugs.html as a guide for how to submit bugs. No, I don't care to hear from the multitude of people in your project who are leaving cygwin because of all of their serious problems. Good luck to them with MinGW, Interix, U/WIN, or whereever they've decided to use. I'm only interested in actual bug reports. I can do something with a bug report. I can't do a single thing with "Every cygwin release breaks Hercules" or "Cygwin has too many bugs, so I'm giving up on it". I'm sure you know that neither of the above are bug reports. They are basically just noise. I don't have enough "copious spare time" to devote to wheedling details out of people. YMMV. 2) I am not trying to blindside you by suggesting that you can distribute the Cygwin source tar ball so that Red Hat lawyers could go after you later. No, I'm not going to give you anything in writing. I'm not going to set that precedent. There are plenty of sites on the internet who are distributing the source tarballs without an official signature from Red Hat. 3) I find all GPL discussions uninteresting and unproductive. I really really hope you can avoid any more harping on this. 4) I'm sorry that none of the suggestions put forth here are satisfactory to you. I'm out of ideas, so that will probably be it for me in this thread unless there is a specific bug report that needs addressing. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/