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Rob Walker schrieb:
> I didn't mean for anyone (especially the package maintainer) to infer
> that make wasn't being actively supported.  My apologies for any
> misunderstanding.
> 
> I'm very interested in your opinions on colons in paths.  I'd prefer to
> hear directly what they are, to avoid any misunderstanding that might
> arise from me trying to glean them from the archives.
> 
> Questions I have in particular:
> 1. what are your thoughts on POSIX support for colons in paths?

Colons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7.
But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the 
subdir "c:"
For now we had to use managed mounts for such names, soon we will be 
able to see readable names.

> 2. what are your thoughts on Cygwin's existing support for DOS paths?

Why should we? For mingw builds use MSYS, for cygwin use cygwin.
Don't mix what does not fit together.
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Reini Urban
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