Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

Gosh, thanks for the well-written description! Sure sounds like a lot of work, though :-| -- ... belief in the omniscient hacker is indistinguishable from belief in a Supreme Being. There is simply no argument one can give that will dissuade a true believer, yet when the believer is asked for a

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 10:17 -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >> "Larry" == Larry Hall (Cygwin) >> com> writes: > > > . Thanks. > > > > > > Larry> This has also been discussed before. If you'd like to > > Lar

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

Eric Hanchrow wrote: "Larry" == Larry Hall (Cygwin) writes: . Thanks. Larry> This has also been discussed before. If you'd like to Larry> understand the options, I'd recommend reviewing the email Larry> archives for threads on this i

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

> "Larry" == Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> This has also been discussed before. If you'd like to Larry> understand the options, I'd recommend reviewing the email Larry> archives for threads on this issue. Thanks; I assume you mean the thread that starts w

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

Eric Hanchrow wrote: I installed the FreeNX Windows client (http://freenx.berlios.de/), hoping to access my server machine remotely. I didn't know it at the time, but the Windows client includes a Cygwin DLL -- and it clobbered by existing Cygwin installation, somehow (I forget the details -- I

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

I installed the FreeNX Windows client (http://freenx.berlios.de/), hoping to access my server machine remotely. I didn't know it at the time, but the Windows client includes a Cygwin DLL -- and it clobbered by existing Cygwin installation, somehow (I forget the details -- I think it modified impor

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Øyvind Harboe wrote: One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). If the Cygwin install p

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:00:36AM +0200, ?yvind Harboe wrote: >One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching >the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do >believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). There has recently been a rash of

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Øyvind Harboe wrote: One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). If the Cygwin install process rocked (e.g. like D

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

Øyvind Harboe wrote: One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). If the Cygwin install process rocked (e.g. like Debian there was some known s

Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). If the Cygwin install process rocked (e.g. like Debian there was some known stable/unstable/testing