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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Please report this problem to the public mailing list...
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124195055.GF3385@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4ddcab5-c10a-79a4-f0d2-538411ee6d00@gmail.com>

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On Jan 24 10:32, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 1/24/2017 10:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote:
> > We have received several postings of people responding to the Cygwin-generated 
> > message: WARNING: ... Please report this problem to the public mailing list
> > cygwin@cygwin.com.
> > 
> > I wonder how many places such messages are present in the Cygwin code.
> > 
> > Just throwing out an idea here to help people help themselves...
> > 
> > Consider all such messages carrying an error code and referred to a Cygwin web 
> > page that contained links to separate pages for each error code, and those pages, 
> > then, would contain the latest information as to how to recover from the 
> > respective errors.
> > 
> 
> Great idea.  I can see this
> 
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> being referenced instead of the mail list which the person may not be
> subscribed to. Care to present a patch to the web page?  And we need a
> patch to the text parts of Cygwin to point to the web page.

If somebody cares to write a patch for a new FAQ entry, I change the
Cygwin source to point it out.

On second thought, Cygwin should probably simple tell the user to update
the outdated Cygwin installation instead.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 15:22 Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-01-24 15:33 ` cyg Simple
2017-01-24 19:51   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2017-01-24 19:53     ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-01-24 20:27       ` Brian Inglis
2017-01-25 20:27         ` cyg Simple

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