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Re: Cygwin instabilities
Al <oss.elmar@googlemail.com> was heard to say:
I am not asking this to debug my own setup. I am rather ask for an
overall estimation of Cygwins current and future usability and
stability.
These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source
project, and that it does not employ dozens of developers with the
abstract task of increasing usability or stability. Both are increased
by either debugging or at least properly reporting bugs. If you
experience stability problems on your setup, then reporting this in
all necessary detail is a sure step to increase future usability and
stability.
It not, how to tweak Cygwin to run on some machines. It's, how big is
the percentage of windows machines, that will run a stable Cygwin with
the standard setup.exe setup.
Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are
exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now flooded with
"my setup works" and "mine too" posts, these numbers would not be
representative. Users may have given up on Cygwin due to instabilities
without notifying the list. Others may run Cygwin so happily they
never think about joining the list. All you could do is to scan the
Cygwin archives for "instabilities" (this is your term and arguably
far too unspecific) and compare it to the number of instabilities
reported for any run-of-the mill Linux in the same timeframe.
Just my 2cc
Markus
P.S. mine works
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Markus Hoenicka
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