Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 02/08/2012 5:14 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> Inconsistency harms least astonishment, and harming least astonishment >> makes me very sad. >While I agree with you completely, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#MSFTEU. >Maybe they can make an exception "just this once" ...
Aha! How did I miss that one!? But unless we're occasionally consistent, we'll be consistently inconsistent, and users will consistently expect our consistence to be inconsistent, with a consistent result of unsurprised users when their Cygwin experience consistently consists of inconsistencies. Okay, I'll stop now. -- 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
