One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks).
If the Cygwin install process rocked (e.g. like Debian there was some known stable/unstable/testing collections, zero questions install, automatic mirrors, able to take adavantage of fat internet connections, etc.), I think this would remove a lot of the reasons for distributing Cygwin with a product(which seems fine at first, but creates subtle and hard to solve compatibilty problems). So how about adding a link to Cygwin front page saying something to the effect that "we're looking for sponsors to fix setup and this is what we plan to do"? Or has this already been done? :-) -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
