On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:15 AM 4/14/2004, you wrote: > >On Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 04:25PM, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR> > > >[snip] > > > >>>Most of my co-workers already switched to using bash, since there never > >>>was an issue with it. Now I could do that too but I love zsh. ;)
Incorrect. There have been issues with bash. Usually these are resolved with a snapshot. > >>>Anyone else experiencing this? Comments? Ideas? Shrieking epitaphs? > >> > >> > >>Sure. There have been some problems over time. Check the email archives > >>if you're interested in details. > > > >Actually I did check the archives whenever I had issues with zsh/cygwin > >in the past. > > Good. Thanks. In that case, you should already know that most problems encountered thus far have been resolved with the latest package update of zsh and with a recent cygwin DLL snapshot (http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/) Until the next formal updated of cygwin, itself, please upgrade to the latest zsh and pull down a recent cygwin snapshot. And if you have problems, as Larry says below, please submit a problem report. > >>I have a sneaking suspicion that you began this thread for a reason but > >>I'm not going to jump to any conclusions (or 'take the bait' ;-) ) > > > >It's definitely not meant as a flame or anything like that. If it > >sounded that way, I'm sorry. > > > >I realize the initial post was vague, but that was intentional. > >I don't want to discuss the _current_ issue with zsh/cygwin, (if it > >still exists like about 1month ago) but was more wondering how fellow > >zsh/cygwin users feel about the situation and how they usually > >handle the problems. (like maybe they use zsh for 'regular work' but > >have a lil wrapper for 'make' which starts it in a bash or something > >like that) > > The best way to handle problems is to report them in as much detail as > possible and/or work to resolve them (patch/test/debug). The ways > that you mention above to handle the problems are "work-arounds". If > possible, it's best to avoid this situation and just fix the problems > instead. Hopefully, that makes everyone feel happy. ;-) FWIW, I use only zsh both at home and work (started from a .bat file, usually) ... but then, I am the maintainer for zsh on Cygwin, so eating my own dog-food it a must :) And, the price of new features is bugs and instability. Once things are shaken out, it'll get stable again. You can either be part of the shake-out process (and submit problem reports!) or wait, patiently, for others to do so. Sorry, that's the best I can offer. In the near future I'll be trying to offer cvs/current snapshots of zsh, which may or may not make things better or worse :) > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com -- Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
