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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: installer improvements
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100407164259.GA25014@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r2ia7459821004070731kbee35a62jd405b5615f715760@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:31:47PM +0300, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:01:58AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>All that said, the tone of the requester is not helping the setup
>>maintainer or the rest of the list really sympathize with his position.
>>?His points wouldn't be so bad if he merely asked for features and
>>improvements rather than demand them and belittle the maintainers when
>>they disagree.  ?Of course, his ideas might be accepted even quicker if
>>they were presented as patches.  ?Cygwin is a volunteer effort after
>>all.
>
>Jeremy, I've merely made some suggestions, I certainly didn't or didn't
>intend to demand anything.  The responses to my suggestions did not
>appear to be based on their merit, rather on the fact that I made them,
>and I replied in the same tone that the suggestions were met with.

Attempts at revisionist history aside, if you'd care to offer patches to
setup they would be objectively considered.

cgf


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-05  9:47 wefwef wefwef
2010-04-06 12:27 ` Morgan Gangwere
2010-04-06 14:10   ` wefwef wefwef
2010-04-06 16:29     ` Morgan Gangwere
2010-04-06 16:54       ` Christopher Faylor
2010-04-06 17:18         ` Tim McDaniel
2010-04-06 20:51           ` Morgan Gangwere
2010-04-08 23:53           ` Steven E. Harris
2010-04-07 12:18       ` wefwef wefwef
2010-04-07 13:32         ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2010-04-07 14:02           ` Jeremy Bopp
2010-04-07 14:31             ` wefwef wefwef
2010-04-07 16:43               ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2010-04-07 17:37         ` [OT] " Dave Korn
2010-04-08 10:16 Gary .
2010-04-08 14:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-04-08 18:40   ` Gary .
2010-04-08 19:03     ` Christopher Faylor

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