On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Stephane Donze wrote: >I am sorry to have to say that, but your message is a very good example >of the fundamental difference between a project that is useable and >reliable, and a project that "almost works" and will never do more that >that. > >[snip] > >If you guys want cygwin to be used by real people, in real life >production or development environments, you should go a bit further than >"I don't have the problem on my computer, so fix it yourself". If you >don't want to or are not able to pay attention to "real world" bugs, >cygwin will probably never be more than an "almost working" program >that runs on your computer the time to take nice screenshots, but fails >miserably when users try to make it work in the real life.
You know, if you'd just waited *a week*, you probably could have laid claim to being the first posting of this type in 2005 rather than (hopefully) the last of 2004. I think that being first is usually much more auspicious. So close... -- 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/
