From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 109809 invoked by alias); 2 May 2018 05:32:13 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 109794 invoked by uid 89); 2 May 2018 05:32:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=talk X-HELO: mail-wm0-f49.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f49.google.com) (74.125.82.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 May 2018 05:32:09 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id n10so21918719wmc.1 for ; Tue, 01 May 2018 22:32:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DoUg6DyjTuQ9PocI+ylh6kqDqD+n9scM0CUqSiPtGiI=; b=YWNtdNcNN7fI1cKIOpLi6+IDGuahX4T+c6dLaOWg9Z7jvKTtwzQZfh5O0X62avFzbd 8CFLu4eQ10IYxPpGQzO2z5QOGVEikgGWeUW+YeQjGknfd6LMhanRYlS3/PoZ2FtiQwCf 9tscHwnfPOltI7CTZN5UqAQdHb3vMgY4BPt9zAFtc/vDnSKuEPcIxl/FYwwFN9ojiyqV 6e5GHO1YYDi5sVuAU7tNRCl4jndBsmpUu8AoOH1AaPZ0aLlDE6ldNlu9lQnT1TKQtNTs yFB0L7DnCTrQ32FxS27zAcJPhBPcbztRhJ0jOX7zV0mLN0B4NZc1MhryZvs7i0k1AWO0 7mjQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCUG+mZ1QqrMge9ULmJzk9mg4a9m2EAqRCp/OU3nMREaaxc2wwI kIeuQT46OYUMPGs39Nz1bJOu3nb1 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZoFLWU/2EeqkKnxwTrb1e9BJAfGXDHUdTI2Kyd1VjoWFBbSE0h4DSBfLaqpiBJPsNFORy/rZg== X-Received: by 10.28.234.206 with SMTP id g75mr10842480wmi.76.1525239127416; Tue, 01 May 2018 22:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:ee:63c8:2701:88f0:6215:fc1a:331a? (p200300EE63C8270188F06215FC1A331A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:ee:63c8:2701:88f0:6215:fc1a:331a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 39-v6sm17847462wry.89.2018.05.01.22.32.06 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 May 2018 22:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <86acdcb9-9067-0f55-2543-6d100aaa7cae@gmail.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <48f5e7f5-e2f5-baf3-9046-bb2f8d8b273e@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 05:32:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On 5/2/2018 1:22 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> Hi, >> following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html >> I wondered how many users cygwin have. >> > > Younger people seem to prefer MSYS due to its use of pacman. > Admittedly, it is very convenient. Otherwise Cygwin (or MSYS) has > always been accepted (at least amongst everyone I talk to) as a > necessity. > > Even if the updates aren't automatic due to the DLL issue, a CLI > interface to the updater would help. > the setup is usable as CLI. Can be improved, but it is usable for most of the stuff. PS: Post bottom is fine, but also trim is needed. Regards Marco -- 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