Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/12/07:03:25
On Feb 11 20:22, Eric Blake wrote:
> I strongly oppose option 3 - cygwin should never add '.' implicitly to the
> front of a POSIX path - if you are crazy enough to want dot there, put
> it there yourself explicitly. But I like option 2, of squeezing ';;' into a
> single ':' (avoiding the implicit dot of $PATH '::'), and ignoring trailing ';'
> (again, avoiding the implicit dot of $PATH trailing ':'). If the user wants
> dot in the middle or at the end, automagically converted from
> the Windows %PATH%, then they can explicitly use ';.;' or trailing
> ';.' to make their intent clear. And since Windows always implicitly
> prepends '.' to %PATH%, this might cut down on the traffic to this
> list of "how did . get on my $PATH?". (Although it will probably
> increase the traffic of "why did ;; get turned into : instead of ::?")
That's unavoidable. Whatever you do, somebody will complain.
Thanks,
Corinna
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