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Re: A standard bug-reporting program for cygwin


On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:07:28PM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> I was hoping that this might be a project that someone here would like to
>> take on.
>> 
>> Anyone interested?
>
>Yes, I'll give it a try. A couple of suggestions (that I'll include if
>nobody points out why they're dumb ideas):
>
>-- When they fill in the "what program?" field, it should check the
>program name(s) supplied and include any details it can find out about
>the executable (whether it exists, full path, size, date, output of
>--version, are there any more of the same name later in the $PATH, etc).
>
>-- As well as writing the output to a file, also save it to the
>clipboard, so the user can just open a mail window and paste.

All good ideas.  Some of the above will be retrievable from cygcheck.exe,
of course.

cgf

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