what's the problem of my cygwin installation?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 02/05/2010 11:03 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, February 05, 2010 9:59 AM
>>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:08:59PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> On 05/02/2010 11:58, G.W.  Haywood wrote:
>>>>> It's long seemed to me that there's a case for changing the name of
>>>>> this file.  On the average Windows box it is not unusual to see several
>>>>> files called 'setup.exe' descended from entirely unrelated products.
>>>>
>>>> The Cygwin icon is a bit of a dead giveaway.
>>>
>>> And, how, exactly, would changing the name of setup.exe to something
>>> else cause a DECREASE in traffic?  It seems like the opposite would be
>>> true.  We'd have to set up a new
>>> "cygwin-what-happened-to-setup.exe@cygwin.com" list.
>>
>> Actually, for a while I've thought that a name change might be useful.
>>
>> The icon identifies it in the GUI, but not on the command line.
>>
>> I seem to remember having sometimes being blocked from doing something
>> with a file named setup.exe.  I wasn't blocked after I changed the name
>> or find some other way to do whatever I was trying to do with it.
>>
>> (Though maybe it was with a different "setup.exe".)
>
> Your experiences notwithstanding, obviously thousands of people are
> running setup.exe without problem.  Changing the name would throw a
> large group of people into confusion.
>
> We're not going to change the name.  I think the cost outweighs any
> benefit (and I actually don't see any benefit).

I have this strange feeling that I've seen this exact conversation somewhere
before.  Must have been from one of my trips to an alternate reality where
this is discussed regularly...

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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