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Re: weft 0.4


Frank Fesevur wrote:
But I find it a kind of strange that no one would be interested in it. chere does similar things. It helps to integrate Cygwin and Windows. And AFAICT, chere is received quite well. But no hard feelings. I wrote the package, it fits my own needs. I thought that others could benefit from it as well.

I think the problem is "sample bias". Most of the cygwin maintainers seem (to me) to be mostly focused on "getting unix stuff that I like to work on the bass-ackward platform called Windows".


I spend most of my "cygwin" time in a bash shell. I've got oodles of scripts to automate things. And I use either vi or xemacs to edit.

The only time I double-click something is (a) when I'm not "cygwinning" -- e.g. I'm using "regular windows" apps, or (b) cygwin setup.exe (c) my shortcuts to rxvt and the xserver. I don't use chere.

So IMO *this audience* isn't very interested in [chere|weft|other-windows-integration]. That doesn't mean that the universe of cygwin users who are NOT maintainers have similar biases.

I'll try to review your package this weekend, and will report back here.

--
Chuck


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