Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sun Mar 15 22:02:00 GMT 2009


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:01:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:47:33AM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote:
>>>I can't believe I wasted two days of my life on this sludge.
>>
>>I can't believe I wasted five minutes of my life reading email from
>>someone who doesn't know how to use a debugger.
>
>I know how to use a debugger.  But I have found that debugging gui
>applications like setup.exe with gdb is...unobvious, even for me.  The
>guy made the effort, did the work, and has developed a working
>solution.  That deserves kudos, and to TC the P -- not condescension.

Please point me to the patch that I missed.  I don't see it in my inbox
or in the archives.

Oh, in case, it wasn't obvious, I was responding to the term "sludge".
Do you think that deserves a kudo, too, oh morally superious one?

cgf



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