Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote: >>Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am >>sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be >>monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you need >>to do when running setup.exe with default options. Fine, if you make a >>mistake with dependencies. But I think there must be a lot of other people >>out there like me who are tech savvy enough to need cygwin but not tech >>savvy enough for it to be a walk in the park when this happens, so surely >>it's not OK to deliberately alter cygwin so that setup.exe no longer >>installs everything you need for the most basic purpose, i.e. opening an >>xterm window? > > Huh? This should be a typical scenario wherein you report a *problem* > and hope that someone will be available to help you fix it. Once it is > fixed, then theoretically it will no longer be a problem. > Characterising this as somehow intentional or as the result of > inattention is insulting and counterproductive. > >
Apologies for causing offence. I have the utmost respect and gratitude for developers of free software, and I've never come across another scientific researcher who includes such acknowledgements in articles for publication, as I do. As I wrote: if this was a mistake, then fair enough. I reckoned it probably wasn't a mistake, because in the release notes for the package: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html it clearly states that the package doesn't provide everything it needs to work. I assumed that whoever incorporated the package into setup.exe would have carefully read those notes. I might be wrong, or I might have misunderstood something else, if so I apologise. But if I'm not wrong, then this was rather careless. Please note when judging me that the main point of my post was to provide an (albeit inelegant) solution to a problem. The plea was made in passing. Cheers, Ben -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-load-any-usable-iso8859-font-tp21793574p21826787.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/