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Re: setup.exe is too small
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 11:28:52 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Andrew,
> >
> > I was not accusing anyone of anything; I was simply commenting on the
> > general statements made by people in this thread. I'm sorry if it
> > seems to you that you were accused. You did read the P.S., right?
>
> The PS only says that this is not a flame. Still you reply to my post,
> addressing me (After all you bothered to start your message by greeting
> me personally e.g. "Andrew,") and then state:
>
> All in all, developers of Cygwin in particular are maintaining their
> packages in their [copious] spare time, and to demand that something
> be done "right now" because someone can't use their package is, to
> say the least, unreasonable, IMO.
>
> It is indeed a natural assumption that the phrase "to demand that
> something be done" is addressed to me, that I was demanding that
> something be done.
Andrew,
I ought to re-read my messages before I send them (I started out
addressing you and drifted off on a tangent). What can I say except "I
apologize"?
Igor
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