Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus

[Matthew Johnson <mej1960 at yahoo dot com>]

--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
>>>>I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin
>>>> I'm using (how can I tell?),

> > You can tell by opening a Cygwin shell and typing,
> "cygcheck --version".
> 
> No.  The output of "cygcheck --version" has *very
> little correlation* with
> the installed version of Cygwin.

Thanks for the correction. Spurred by your rejoinder,
I re-read the description and find that "very little"
is even an understatement.

> The way to find
> out the version of
> Cygwin you're using is the same as that of finding
> out the version of
> Linux (or any other Unix) that's being used: "uname
> -r"

According to the man page for 'uname', the '-r' option
gives the release number of the kernel only. Is this
really identical with the version number of Cygwin?

> The installed
> version of Cygwin (and other packages) is also part
> of the output of
> "cygcheck -svr".

Now this output refers to "Cygwin version DLL info".
Are you really referring to the same thing as "Cygwin
version DLL info" in one place, but as "kernel
release" in another? The Reporting Guidelines use the
bare term 'cygwin release', which sounds like a
release for the entire cygwin installation, not just
the DLL.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that
people read the reporting guidelines, but still do not
include the 'cygwin release'.

BTW: I am currently working on a software project
where the release number is one thing, and the version
another, and they two have no correlation.

> > In fact, it is a oftne a really good idea to run
> "cygcheck -svr >
> > cygchout" and attach the file 'cygchout' to email
> to this list, since
> > many people can spot the problem right away from
> that output.

[snip]

> OTOH, there are many guidelines for posting
> Cygwin-related questions to
> the lists, all of which are listed at
> <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

Certainly. And including the output from 'cygcheck' is
one of the more frequently useful of the guidelines.
Perhaps that is why it is in bold.

OTOH, the so-called 'good examples' of subject lines
are not so convincing. What are those numbers '1.1.8'
supposed to mean?



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Matthew Johnson
mej1960@yahoo.com


		
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