On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:32:29PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >True. And I speak for the package maintainer here, of course. If there was a >problem with one of the package files that had not already been discovered >it would be nice to let him (me) know about it, if it hadn't already been >reported on the cygwin-apps mailing list during the testing phase.
I don't want to beat this to death but I get the strong feeling that my point is being lost here. If someone can't figure out how to install a "prerelease" version of a package then I don't think their feedback will be all that useful. Life is full of tradeoffs. In this project, the tradeoff that I am enforcing is that we don't clutter the list with "I can't figure out how to install the bushwah package. How do I plug it into setup.exe so that I can install it?" email. Of course I understand that there is a potential of missing feedback on package installation problems but that is what cygwin-apps and the dedicated group of people doing package review is for. Adding a secondary group of more clueless testers is not how I want things to be handled. The cygwin mailing list is consistently the first or second most active list on sources.redhat.com. When I see trends developing that would tend to increase traffic for little gain, I will take steps to stop them. cgf -- 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/
