Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> >> If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are >> >> primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself. >> >> They are nice, but not necessary. >> >> > I am honest with myself. I, as everyone have limited time. >> >> Seems like the limit on your time is very laxed. >> For the time you wrote all the posts to this list, I've downloaded whole >> Cygwin /cvs/src, found the offended string, patched the file, and it took me >> 2 >> days to rebuild it only because I wasn't familiar with out-of-the tree build >> system. (Had to read building instructions first, yeah...) >> Now, I'm a happy owner of a custom cygpath that doesn't annoy me with >> insignificant warnings.
> Wanna send the patch to cygwin-patches(*)? I'm not quite happy with it yet. I'll need to dig through that function another pass to see, if I can completely avoid the code path in question without harming any hamsters in process. Besides, when I digged through it, I got an idea of completely new functionality. That may be the one I want to contribute. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 11.04.2014, <15:01> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
