Jordan Bortz wrote: > It does nt work at all..Like...it refuses to download the list of mirrors; > if I install from a local disk, it shows hardly any packages in the > avaialble list. > > When it attempts to install something, what it usually install is just the > directories. > > I could go on and on and screenshots and etc...The bottoms line is it > doesnt work, (on my machine) if you want to believe it works on every > machine, fine.
We believe it works on the vast majority of machines, based on the extremely low volume of setup bug-reports compared to the large volume of general Cygwin questions. > I've given up on cygwin but I'm letting you know fwiw that the installer > seems incredibly broken. First, "does not work on 1 single machine, whilst working just fine for everyone else" is nowhere near to "incredibly broken". Second, if it works for us, and you can't be bothered to provide detailed information about your problem, exactly how do you expect setup to be improved? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
