Robert Collins wrote:
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote:
I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses
the % sign.
Thats a hasty generalization
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html.
And
even if you guys were right (which you
John Morrison wrote:
Hi All,
Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of
December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages
have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of
configuration files into the correct location if they don't
already exist.
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:36:17PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
John Morrison wrote:
Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of
December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages have
postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of configuration
files into the
Max,
There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include
moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense.
Politeness is a human quality one must learn from elders, and I can't
help you there.
Since the responses here have been unhelpful I will just unsubscribe.
You are very defensive
Thanks, I'll fix this in a couple days when I get the chance.
(Out of town right now.)
--- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just found a couple of packaging errors in cygwin-doc-1.2-1
No big problems, but worth fixing anyway.
Source package:
Unpacks into usr/src/cygwin-doc-1.2-1.
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, M. Evans wrote:
Since the responses here have been unhelpful I will just unsubscribe.
So what ?
There is another way to solve the whole problem. Cygwin could put the
tarballs where I tell it, not in some deeply nested %-laden path that
changes with every download. The
Answering for the archives, so future enquirers don't get a distorted
view.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:27, M. Evans wrote:
Max,
There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include
moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense.
This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 07:42, Robert Collins wrote:
This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the discussion
insert to being only
legally or factually wrong.
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