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Subject:	Re: URL paths in setup.exe
From:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc:	Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Apps AT cygwin DOT com>, Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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Date:	07 May 2002 23:28:58 +1000
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On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 23:11, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> 


> > I'm open to ideas for renaming, but ... posix:// is wrong (it's not a
> > posix provider per se - it's a cygwin mounted structure provider). (And
> > posix:// is the most obvious alternative to cygfile:// for me.)
> 
> The cygfile:// is fine, it's the reference to "MinGW land" which exists at
> www.mingw.org that will confuse some search engine user that I'm concerned
> with.  You don't have a library for "MinGW land".  You have methods that you use
> use mingw to build or more precisely you use -mno-cygwin to build, correct?

I was articulating what cygfile does for you. I wouldn't normally refer
to it as MingW land :}. To be precise we have methods that execute using
the mingw libc and provide access to the cygwin directory structure. The
build process is irrelevant - real mingw or -mno-cygwin the result is
the same. (Or maybe I'm just missing your point?)

Rob

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