> I'd beg to differ; I'd suggest it is, as suggested by the OP, > actually quite a common use. You only have to look at the use of > say perl and you will have users quite regularly compiling their > own DLL's as they install modules via CPAN, and this is quite painful > due to all the issues it can present with rebase. > > While I love cygwin, I must say that its supporting community can > be very dismissive of its users to the point of alienating potential > contributors. I myself has have experienced this on several occasions > and have ended up finding myself not raising issues that affect us > daily for fear of being shot down for no more reason that someone > doesn't "think" its import to fix or should "work" that way anyway > or even doesn't like the way you structured you post. > > To reiterate I still think that developers deserve much respect > and thanks for all the effort they put in, but a little more open > mindedness and approachability like that which can be found in other > open source communities such as SFU and FreeBSD wouldn't go a miss > sometimes ;-) > > Regards > Steve >
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