From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16058 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2010 16:43:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 16045 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Apr 2010 16:43:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-55-5.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.55.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:43:01 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E3513C061 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6CE032B352; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:43:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installer improvements Message-ID: <20100407164259.GA25014@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4BBB2836.3000601@gmail.com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208DEF24522@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4BBC9056.3030400@bopp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-04/txt/msg00318.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple