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Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:25:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:04:56AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>If you have been reading this list for any length of time then it should
>>>>be obvious that merely mentioning something in cygwin-announce is not an
>>>>adequate way to let people know about serious changes.
>>>
>>>Trust me I know; my question is why this is being handled differently
>>>than other major changes (e.g. bash), or if you're looking for a new way
>>>in general of notification, particularly as carrying out the change will
>>>confuse much fewer people than leaving the status-quo.
>>
>>The discussion has been to augment 'setup.exe' in a way as to provide users
>>with feedback about "important" package changes in general. It has come up
>>in the context of the gcc change but would have to apply generally.
>>"Important" would be defined by the maintainer by some mechanism.
>>Presumably, every release of package 'foo' does not trigger the "important"
>>flag. ;-)
>
>Maybe we should add a EULA to setup? Something like...
>
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>
>- I have read the release notes for any packages I am newly installing
>or upgrading, and will not post messages to the mailing list that
>address issues covered in the aforementioned release notes.
>
>- If I use Cygwin for any purpose for which it was not intended, I will
>try very hard to resolve my own problems, or to find an appropriate
>place to ask question. If I find it necessary to ask the Cygwin list, I
>will apologize for asking an off-topic question and accept that I may
>not get any help.
>
>- I recognize that this is Open Source Software, and that I probably did
>not pay for it (and if I did, the developers didn't see any of that
>money). Therefore I promise to be polite when reporting bugs, and
>understanding of the limits on developers' time. I acknowledge that the
>best way to get something fixed is to do it myself.
>====
>
>...and I'm sure we could probably think of a few more points. :-)
I like the above but there should be a link to http://cygwin.com/donations.html
in the "I recognize" part. :-)
cgf