Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/06/29/10:44:55
> From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:59:00 +0200
>
> > I don't like environment variables as a means to solve such problems.
> > They should be the last resort. A Bash variable sounds like a better
> > idea.
>
> There are already things like POSIXLY_CORRECT, and at least I didn't
> hear complaints about it.
Probably because no one uses it ;-)
> > > OTOH, I think that if we implement this, then search order should be
> > > reverted to be unix-like again - we have more genuine DJGPP and UNIX
> > > apps that DOS ones.
> >
> > I don't understand this. Could you please explain?
>
> Yes, a typo can mungle text not worse than C++ name mangler :) I mean
> that there are a lot of apps ported from UNIX, which want UNIX behaviour
> naturally, there is another lot of apps written specially for DJGPP
> which had to live with UNIX behaviour up to and including 2.03 release.
> All these apps outnumber the apps written for MS, Borland, Watcom and
> so on, which would expect DOSish behaviour. So which ones should we cater?
You forget the interactive user: users' expectations are also
important, because Bash is used as an interactive shell as well as a
batch shell.
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