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Re: Create a cygwin-setup mailing list?


On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:40:11AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 02:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I think it would really help if I created YA mailing list called
>> "cygwin-setup" and we directed all setup.exe discussion there.
>> There is enough discussion of setup here that I think the list
>> would benefit from a split.
>
>I don't particularly care either way - it won't affect me much.
>
>What it will do is separate out discussion of what setup can do from the
>people using it. I see that as a bad thing.

But setup.exe shouldn't be brain science to the people producing
packages.  They should be producing setup.hint files and those files
should be pretty straightforward.

You could make the same argument about cygwin-developers and cygwin,
though.  Or even cygwin-patches and cygwin.

cgf


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