Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

[Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>]

Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice:
> > On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> >
> > > A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin.
> > > When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information
> > > will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user account.
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but there are other solutions meanwhile. Also, you would have
> > to remember to switch user everytime, which may take a while, and it's not even possible
> > to create user accounts on everybody's machine.
> You're the only one that needs to remember, and it's only your machine that would need the
> the user account. Other people building the package don't have the same … requirements …
> you do. They're not distributing what they build. They would just use the cygport and be done
> with it.
>
> (Not selling the solution as I have no opinion on it, just pointing out that neither of those
> objections are really a problem.)
What I wanted to point out with my last objection is that some people 
may not be able to create an account as they like, in an enterprise 
environment.

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