Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, DH wrote: >> >>> For the love of open source, is the setup.exe dialog listing the >>> packages ever going to get bigger? >>> >>> I've searched the mailing list and people complained about this >>> before. >>> >>> What is the hold up? (3 months back I got so frustrated by this I >>> swore off cygwin up until today) >> >> People requesting this functionality stick only to complaining and >> not actually implementing it. > > Probably shooting myself in the foot.... > > Perhaps we should introduce a saying that I heard in another news > group (yes I use news to access this mail list) namely "If you are > unsatisfied with the software as it is then I suggest you take it > back for a > refund!" ;-) > > However in the defense of the others, there are many reasons why, > IMHO, the Open Source attitude of "Fix it yourself" just doesn't work > for > many, many people using Open Source software. And the key word there > is "using" in that they are not interested nor perhaps have the time > or knowledge to build/fix/patch Open Source stuff rather they are just > consumers of the end result (The Open Source model loses sight of the > fact that there are people who just want to be consumers - IOW it's > not > a commercial model thus is having difficulty being accepted in the > commercial marketplace). > > Hell if I had the time (that is enough copious free time - which I > don't) and the knowledge (haven't programmed in C++ in years, nor > have I written Windows applications) then I would take this and fix > it myself! > > To the "Frequent Patchers/Implementors" here you have yet another > advantage in that some of you already have your heads wrapped around > the various concepts that Cygwin implements (I've looked briefly at > the packaging concept, the bz tar images, setup log, dependencies, > etc and > it would take me a while to get the concepts in my head). So you guys > are at a distinct advantage to many of the "Cygwin consumers". > > I'm certain that if I took some time I could do it but I don't have > the time to do it. IOW it would take me perhaps months to do because > the added time to get to know all the stuff I'd need to know before > actually coding anything of the fix. Whereas people who have already > worked on setup.exe would not have such start up costs and could > implement this in weeks if not days. > > It's amazing to me how people can't see this!
We can. However, we too have significant shortages of free time. Max. -- 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/
