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Date: | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:23:32 -0500 |
From: | Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
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To: | "William A. Hoffman" <billlist AT nycap DOT rr DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe |
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William A. Hoffman wrote: > I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused > a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin. It would be nice if > this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not. However, it conflicted > with the working tclsh83.exe I already had in my path. Shouldn't the > name of this by cygtclsh83.exe? No. Are you suggesting that all 508 of the .exe's in my /bin should really be named "cyg*.exe"? "cyglynx" "cygman" "cygless" just because they MIGHT conflict with a mingw or native version of less.exe or man.exe? If that is NOT what you are suggestion -- e.g. that only tclsh83 should be renamed -- why? Why is tclsh83 special? It's easy to avoid executable PATH conflicts -- just make sure the tclsh you want appears in the PATH before the one you don't like. End of problem. --Chuck P.S. Now, we *do* name all DLL's with a special 'cyg' prefix, but that is because DLLs are a much more complicated problem than EXEs (memory resident, etc etc) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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