Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010301191745.02442160@mailhost> X-Sender: paulson@mailhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:30:33 -0800 To: Earnie Boyd From: John Paulson Subject: Re: New symlinks. In-Reply-To: <3A9F0AA7.6AFCC739@yahoo.com> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010301173204.02448c90@mailhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed wrt autoconf vs interactive use, if you are doing autoconf you are most likely a sufficiently advanced guru that working around the missing extensions is just another pain-in-the-butt. IMHO, making the interactive user happy is more important than making autoconf developers happy. I say this because there's more traffic from users than from package maintainers... (When was the last time you say mail saying "I'm porting package xyz to cygwin and am running into following problem when doing the configure.in script"?) ---------------------------- John Paulson PowerTV, Inc. Tel: 408/777-5255 Fax: 408/777-4782 mailto:paulson@powertv.com http://www.powertv.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple