From: Peter Buckley <peter.buckley@cportcorp.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: press for cygwin
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A89B19AEAAD411B9D200A0C9FB5699E88EB0@craius.cportcorp.com> (raw)
I emailed the author-
I read your cygwin/OpenSSH article at win2kmag.com-
I didn't care for it. You are proposing an unsupported method
to install the cygwin toolset- even without this press for cygwin,
the cygwin mailing list gets an email a week about "I installed
with winzip, and something doesn't work." Many of the developers
are tired of answering people who don't follow basic directions
that are there for good reasons- winzip can't handle necessary
things like symlinks- and sometimes they are a little curt with
people who have cygwin problems and have shot themselves in
the foot by performing a half-baked install.
You might want to check the archives of the cygwin mailing
list to see the numerous messages about broken installs due
to not following directions.
Also- you don't mention setting the CYGWIN variable to "ntsec",
which I believe is required based on the openssh-2.9p2.readme
(for sshd to work or be secure).
You are setting a lot of people up for frustration and failure by
recommending an incomplete/unsupported installation of these tools-
when installed correctly, the cygwin toolset is fantastic.
Maybe you should read and point people to http://tech.erdelynet.com .
It has an excellent cygwin and ssh setup section, and ssh mailing list.
Of course, YOU probably won't get all the pleas for help from people
following your directions- the cygwin list/developers will.
I think you should more carefully consider the implications of your article
before you
let someone publish it. "Does a man build a tower without first considering
whether he has the time and materials to build it?" I forget what verse that
is.
Even though I disagree with you on the article,
I want to thank you for helping out with crosswalk.com.
-Peter
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-30 14:34 Peter Buckley [this message]
2001-08-30 14:57 ` Christopher Faylor
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2001-09-06 1:55 jmarshall
2001-09-05 5:04 jmarshall
2001-09-05 8:52 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-03 8:56 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-09-03 6:52 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-09-03 7:56 ` Charles Wilson
2001-09-03 8:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-03 8:45 ` Michael Schaap
2001-09-03 9:03 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-03 9:30 ` Andrew Markebo
2001-09-03 9:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-03 15:23 ` Robert Collins
2001-09-03 18:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-03 19:17 ` Charles Wilson
2001-09-03 19:35 ` Robert Collins
2001-09-04 9:52 ` Warren Young
2001-09-04 12:52 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-05 18:04 ` Warren Young
2001-09-07 12:27 ` Warren Young
2001-09-07 12:35 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-07 14:22 ` Warren Young
2001-09-07 14:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-08-31 7:36 Mark Bradshaw
2001-08-31 8:07 ` Charles Wilson
2001-08-31 10:29 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-08-31 17:09 ` Robert Collins
2001-08-31 0:34 Press for Cygwin Peter Ring
2001-08-30 14:31 yap_noel
2001-08-30 15:38 ` Eric M. Monsler
2001-08-30 14:10 Robinow, David
2001-08-30 14:24 ` Charles Wilson
2001-08-30 13:47 Robinow, David
2001-08-30 12:57 Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-08-30 13:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-08-30 13:12 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-08-30 13:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-08-30 13:37 ` Jonathon Merz
2001-08-30 14:04 ` Charles Wilson
2001-08-30 13:29 ` Rick Rankin
2001-08-30 13:33 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2001-08-30 13:42 ` Michael Schaap
2001-08-30 13:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-08-30 14:01 ` Michael Schaap
2001-08-30 14:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-02 20:24 ` John Marshall
2001-08-30 13:56 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2001-08-30 14:03 ` Michael F. March
2001-08-30 14:12 ` Michael Schaap
2001-08-30 14:06 ` Charles Wilson
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