I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than running setup.exe.
So, that experiment was a bad idea. I turned off access again. Yet, I still have the feeling that many people are downloading packages directly (from mirrors I suppose) and then we get to experience the maddening "I downloaded foo and it gives me an error about missing bar. What in the world could possibly be the problem????" Can anyone offer any explanation about this? Or maybe convince me that I'm wrong in noticing this trend? I suppose that it is possible that we are now hitting a newer stupider brand of user who just can't be bothered to read the cygwin web site and click on a link to download but I'm wondering if there is another explanation. Maybe there is a popular web page out there with wrong advice or something... cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
