spotting cygwin ml trends

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:47:40PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Right.  I'm theorizing that cygwin's popularity is widening and we're
>>coming in contact with more of them.
>
>And the fix is obvious, of course: hardcode everything everywhere in
>Cygwin.  None of this weenie registry/Path crap.  Make it a completely
>closed system, released once every 6 years, with "security updates"
>every 3 months (or so..).

You know, that just might work!  It follows a known successful software
release model.

And, maybe I'll get some job security out of this plan.

cgf