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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Olivier Langlois wrote:
>>>Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin
>>>are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine
>>>to run DOS tools.  That's a nice side-effect at best.
>>
>>It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise
>>if offering a POSIX environment while coexisting nicely with DOS tools
>>was not one of the legacy Cygwin design goal, how comes this
>>feature/behavior has been included for so many years in Cygwin? How
>>about backward compatibility as a design goal? Backward compatibility is
>>a nice design goal, you know.
>
>FLOSS is not known for keeping backward compatibility particularly high 
>in their list of design goals. :-)

We do keep it high on our list for the Cygwin DLL.  We agonize over it
quite a bit, in fact.

"make" is neither the Cygwin project nor is it the Cygwin DLL.

cgf - make maintainer

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