>>>>> You also proposed adding a feature it already has, a column telling you >>>>> whether a package is already installed or not. This tells me that you >>>>> are not >>>>> calmly and dispassionately observing what is in front of your eyes. >>>> It doesn't have a column dedicated for this purpose, that column is >>>> used also to instruct the installer what to do. >>> You are looking at the wrong column. >>> >>> Look at the column immediately to its left. >>> >>> The one labelled "Current". >>> >>> The one that shows you the currently-installed version of the package, or >>> nothing if it is not currently installed. >>> >>> Perhaps you could get that two-year old you mentioned earlier to point it >>> out to you. >> Thanks, but it seems I already have. > > Haha, very funny, but that doesn't make you any less wrong. You were unable > to see something that was right in front of your face. Given that, it's > perfectly reasonable for me not to just take your other claims at face value > but need some kind of verification, like steps by which to reproduce any > supposed bug.
You also can't see obvious flaws that are right in front of your face, even after they have been pointed out to you several times. > >>>> If that's the case, then why does it offer to save packages without >>>> installing - it obviously was intended as a way of downloading and >>>> installing later. >>> Yes, exactly. It is a way of downloading, for later installation, the >>> exact >>> same set of packages it would download and install at the same time if you >>> ran >>> it in install-from-internet mode. >>> >>> Not some arbitrary different set of packages. You made that bit up. >>> >>>> The fact is that the obvious way it should work, >>> You're just elevating your own mistaken assumptions to the status of >>> "obvious" truths. You need to get over yourself. >> Wow, you just can't help throwing insults around - well done, you're >> great at that at least. > > I thought after your vitriolic post about "so obvious a two-year old could > see it" that you were happy with this style of communication. Regardless, > claiming that your mistaken assumption is "obvious" and everyone else in the > world is wrong for not seeing things your way is pretty much the definition of > needing to get over yourself. There's plenty of other people saying that the cygwin installer is junk - it's just that if you ignore everyone, you will come to the conclusion that it is perfect as you obviously have. > > I note that in this entire post you haven't addressed one issue of > substance. All the points that I made are unrebutted, and still relevant, > regardless of how you feel about the tone in which I delivered them. > >>> Still no log files, I see. It's almost as if you didn't want to >>> demonstrate >>> that there is a bug or have it fixed. I promise you, if you've found a >>> bug, I >>> will indeed write the code necessary to fix it, but you have to be able to >>> show it to me. >> >> Dave, thanks, but cygwin obviously doesn't want my input, and I don't >> want your help. > > Went back and looked at the log files and realised that you did choose the > wrong directory on the local package dir screen after all, did you? Now > you're manufacturing an argument so that you can throw a dramatic strop and > storm out without having to admit that you made a mistake? No I haven't made any mistakes, I've stated what is wrong with the cygwin installer - it has a bad user interface with obvious design flaws, and it doesn't produce consistent results. I also found out that cygwin don't care about quality, and to expect poor standards - as you've made it perfectly clear. > > Well, never mind. You've got the working minimal cygwin installation you > wanted now, and you know how to do it again, and setup.exe works perfectly > well to do what you want, so it is indeed true that you don't need my help. Setup.exe doesn't work perfectly at all. I have zero confidence that it will produce the same results next time I run it. -- 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
