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Those nasty bundled Cygwin's
- From: "Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:00:36 +0200
- Subject: 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 collections, zero questions install,
automatic mirrors, able to take adavantage of fat internet
connections, etc.), I think this would remove a lot of the reasons for
distributing Cygwin with a product(which seems fine at first, but
creates subtle and hard to solve compatibilty problems).
So how about adding a link to Cygwin front page saying something to
the effect that "we're looking for sponsors to fix setup and this is
what we plan to do"?
Or has this already been done? :-)
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Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com
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