Re: Basic question about cygport (and thanks to Jon Turney)

2014-08-06 Thread Philip Daniels
On 4 August 2014 21:56, Yaakov Selkowitz yselkow...@cygwin.com wrote: On 2014-08-04 14:16, Philip Daniels wrote: In this particular case, I would suggest just using a git snapshot of your forked repository; see git.cygclass in the cygport manual for details. Thanks to Jon Turney I was able to

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 00:17, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Nobody care. Really. Noone going to recheck your answers to see is they are relevant to the current Cygwin realities. Which is a part of issue. Cygwin is evolving, and answers found all around the

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Philip Daniels philip.daniels1971 at gmail.com writes: A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic copy some files to a known

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Steven Penny! You long winded and baseless insults toward Stack Overflow and myself show just how out of touch you are. I didn't said anything about StackOverflow and/or yourself. If you open your eyes and read the text you quoted, you'll see it. And I'm not waving my own

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/4/2014 8:41 PM, Doug Henderson wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the rough attitude is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches - and that might

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/05/2014 03:04 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Sorry I was making a joke about the fact that many people don't wear watches at all anymore. And that dates me again. ;-) -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it

Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Philip Daniels
Hi, A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic copy some files to a known location task. Can anyone help?

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 08:16:13PM +0100, Philip Daniels wrote: A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic copy some files to a

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-08-04 14:16, Philip Daniels wrote: A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. Support is only provided (as best we can) through the mailing lists here on cygwin.com. Advice provided through

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. This is highly presumptuous. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on Stack Overflow, you calling those likely to be erroneous?

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Richard Troy
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Steven Penny wrote: ...snip... This is highly presumptuous. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on ... This list has had a long history of having a somewhat different attitude - culture, if you will - than you might find elsewhere on the net; some might

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Richard Troy wrote: you could have helped the person by doing those other things (like looking at stackoverflow) using less energy than you spent being abrasive. Hey bro, what the hell are you talking about? *I* made one comment, which was this This is highly

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/04/2014 09:55 PM, Richard Troy wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. (Sorry Richard, I added Yaakov's response above back in so I could make a

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 05/08/2014 03:23, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. This is highly presumptuous. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on Stack Overflow, you calling those likely to

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the rough attitude is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches - and that might encourage its continuation... I like platinum watches. Platinum watches are friends of mine. You

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the rough attitude is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches - and that might encourage its continuation... I like platinum watches. Platinum watches are friends of mine. You

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Henderson
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the rough attitude is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches - and that might encourage its continuation... I like

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Steven Penny! Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. This is highly presumptuous. It is time-proven. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on Stack Overflow, you calling those likely to be erroneous? Nobody care. Really. Noone going to

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Nobody care. Really. Noone going to recheck your answers to see is they are relevant to the current Cygwin realities. Which is a part of issue. Cygwin is evolving, and answers found all around the internet, copypasted for years without even