Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

[amorphia <ben dot kenward at gmail dot com>]

Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote:
>>Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I
am
>>sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be
>>monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you
need
>>to do when running setup.exe with default options. Fine, if you make a
>>mistake with dependencies. But I think there must be a lot of other people
>>out there like me who are tech savvy enough to need cygwin but not tech
>>savvy enough for it to be a walk in the park when this happens, so surely
>>it's not OK to deliberately alter cygwin so that setup.exe no longer
>>installs everything you need for the most basic purpose, i.e. opening an
>>xterm window?
> 
> Huh?  This should be a typical scenario wherein you report a *problem*
> and hope that someone will be available to help you fix it.  Once it is
> fixed, then theoretically it will no longer be a problem.
> Characterising this as somehow intentional or as the result of
> inattention is insulting and counterproductive.
> 
> 

Apologies for causing offence. I have the utmost respect and gratitude for
developers of free software, and I've never come across another scientific
researcher who includes such acknowledgements in articles for publication,
as I do.

As I wrote: if this was a mistake, then fair enough. I reckoned it probably
wasn't a mistake, because in the release notes for the package:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html

it clearly states that the package doesn't provide everything it needs to
work. I assumed that whoever incorporated the package into setup.exe would
have carefully read those notes. I might be wrong, or I might have
misunderstood something else, if so I apologise. But if I'm not wrong, then
this was rather careless.

Please note when judging me that the main point of my post was to provide an
(albeit inelegant) solution to a problem. The plea was made in passing.

Cheers,

Ben
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