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Re: Wading in piles of hippo dung...
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:15:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Wading in piles of hippo dung...
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Brian Dessent wrote:
> mwoehlke wrote:
>
> > Do we keep records anywhere for 'longest-running thread', 'deepest
> > thread', etc? All the 'make broke' whiners have (so far) produced a
> > thread with 90 post (65 in cygwin, 25 in cygwin-talk) that is 25 levels
> > deep. :-) And that doesn't count the other threads...
> >
> > Hmm, depth = number of posts in -talk... coincidence?
> >
> > Nope, it's all CGF's evil fault. :-D
>
> It's times like this that I think Cygwin needs an official drinking
> game...
>
> [snip the totally hilarious but absolutely unrealistic set of rules]
because where would Cygwin be with all core developers lying happy drunk
on their keyboards while they should be busily resurrecting MS-DOS path
handling in make?
Igor
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