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Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:39:47 -0000
- Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302141331580.7773-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: "Elfyn McBratney" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the
> > cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed
> > to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files
> > directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than running
> > setup.exe.
> >
> > So, that experiment was a bad idea. I turned off access again. Yet, I
> > still have the feeling that many people are downloading packages
> > directly (from mirrors I suppose) and then we get to experience the
> > maddening "I downloaded foo and it gives me an error about missing bar.
> > What in the world could possibly be the problem????"
> >
> > Can anyone offer any explanation about this? Or maybe convince me that
> > I'm wrong in noticing this trend? I suppose that it is possible that
> > we are now hitting a newer stupider brand of user who just can't be
> > bothered to read the cygwin web site and click on a link to download
> > but I'm wondering if there is another explanation. Maybe there is
> > a popular web page out there with wrong advice or something...
> >
> > cgf
>
> Well, guess what comes up first on a Google search for "cygwin install"?
> See for yourself: <http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+install> (just in
> case, the first match I get is
<http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/basic.htm>,
> last updated on March 24, 2000). :-(
> I don't know if there's anything that can be done about it, though...
Well, Gary (Gary R. Van Sickle) is the maintainer of that page, so....
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk
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