From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7813 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 16:50:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6107 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:47:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:47:40 -0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:46:29 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'Mark Mitchell'" , "'Christopher Faylor'" Cc: , Subject: RE: Windows support in GDB Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:52:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42725D6A.7040103@codesourcery.com> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2005 16:46:29.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[FDF63600:01C54CDA] X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00228.txt.bz2 ----Original Message---- >From: Mark Mitchell >Sent: 29 April 2005 17:15 > The fundamental reason for us to use it is that our customers say -- > strongly -- that they do not want to use Cygwin. (In contrast, I use > Cygwin every day.) There are a lot of possible reasons for the customer > desire, and it doesn't really seem all that useful to debate the > reasons, as our debate won't change their minds. :) The customer is always right, even if they're a complete idiot! Also, "find out what your customers want and give it to them" is good business practice, whereas "find out what you've got and try to make your customers want it" is marketing. Have a good weekend everyone! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....