Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.

[Matthew Woehlke]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> If you have been reading this list for any length of time then it should
>>> be obvious that merely mentioning something in cygwin-announce is not an
>>> adequate way to let people know about serious changes.
>>
>> Trust me I know; my question is why this is being handled differently
>> than other major changes (e.g. bash), or if you're looking for a new way
>> in general of notification, particularly as carrying out the change will
>> confuse much fewer people than leaving the status-quo.
> 
> The discussion has been to augment 'setup.exe' in a way as to provide users
> with feedback about "important" package changes in general.  It has come up
> in the context of the gcc change but would have to apply generally.
> "Important" would be defined by the maintainer by some mechanism.
> Presumably, every release of package 'foo' does not trigger the "important"
> flag. ;-)

Maybe we should add a EULA to setup? Something like...

====
By installing this software, I agree to the following:

- I have read the release notes for any packages I am newly installing 
or upgrading, and will not post messages to the mailing list that 
address issues covered in the aforementioned release notes.

- If I use Cygwin for any purpose for which it was not intended, I will 
try very hard to resolve my own problems, or to find an appropriate 
place to ask question. If I find it necessary to ask the Cygwin list, I 
will apologize for asking an off-topic question and accept that I may 
not get any help.

- I recognize that this is Open Source Software, and that I probably did 
not pay for it (and if I did, the developers didn't see any of that 
money). Therefore I promise to be polite when reporting bugs, and 
understanding of the limits on developers' time. I acknowledge that the 
best way to get something fixed is to do it myself.
====

...and I'm sure we could probably think of a few more points. :-)

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Matthew
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