typical cygwin email #1

[Mike Marchywka]

I think pymol is looking for a cygwin maintainer, fwiw :)
This does come up on google :)



>From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
>Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
>To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
>Subject: typical cygwin email #1
>Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:32:01 -0400
>
>Subject: pforum
>
>Hi,
>I am building pforum on CygWin and when I type "./configure" it
>says "file not found".
>
>I googled for this problem but I was unable to find a solution.
>
>Can anyone help???
>
><ASCII Art deleted>
>
>Translation:
>
>Subject: pforum
>
>Hi (I hope that if I'm friendly someone will help me),
>I (a user with no development experience whatsoever and no understanding
>of what is required to build software but who is nevertheless gamely
>trying to push on even though your product is so hard to use) am
>building pforum (and I'm naturally assuming that since you're all
>experienced computer professionals you instinctively know what 'pforum'
>is) on CygWin (I'm assuming that you didn't capatalize the 'W' in Cygwin
>anywhere on the web site due to some oversight) and when I type (I'm
>pretty proud of myself for discovering that I have to click on the
>Cygwin icon before doing this) "./configure" (whatever that is) it says
>"file not found" (this will not, in any way, invoke the slightest shred
>of curiousity in me to actually look to see if there is a file called
>"./configure" since I have no development experience or even basic
>thinking skills, instead relying on the supernatural telepathic and
>clairvoyant abilities of those who are waiting in line to give me help.
>And, since I have no development experience, I can't decode these
>strange Computer-speak style error messages anyway).
>
>I googled (i.e., I typed "why won't pfroum build on Cygwin for crying
>out loud???" into my search bar) for this problem but I was unable to find
>a solution (I did get a lot of hits but it was obvious that none of them
>pertained to me since they all just mentioned that I was probably in the
>wrong directory).
>
>Can anyone help (I'm actually a little miffed that I have to type this
>because people should have already telepathically been notified of
>my problem and should have sent me the solution already.  I'll try to
>keep up a polite face but I'm already a little annoyed that this software
>is so hard to use)???
>
><ASCII Art deleted> (this should impress them with my skills, at least)

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