--- On Tue, 2/7/13, Alan W. Irwin irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
Going personal and accusing others of being biased is
not a way of getting help.
...In short, I have
a prejudice against anyone stating anecdotal evidence concerning issues with _any_ open-source software if they don't back up that anecdotal evidence with a solid bug report. For example, you stated some anecdotal evidence about a bug in Cygwin "cat", but when I requested a reference for your associated bug report to Cygwin you were silent. That told me a lot.
...
That tells you only one thing: I don't care about Cygwin enough now to bother filing one more bug among those already filed. My time is more valuable than that. 13 years ago I used it daily and I made my own contributions, and that was then. Half of the time I file bugs on various projects because I have patches to attach/send, and this is not the case with cygwin now, and will not be. I don't intend to file a bug because I don't intend spend time fixing it. You wish.
I am not the one asking for help - you are. Launching personal attacks on people trying to help you is just not the way to do it. Nor is exaggeration, nor is 20-line of [lack of] life included in every e-mail.
If you want help, ask for it, nicely, and keep it short.