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 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:11:15 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.1.6: diff -r porting problem for Windows Message-ID: <20010318191115.C16520@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:58:52AM +1100 On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:58:52AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Submit a patch. If it's done as an option, and cleanly, then there is a >decent chance it'll get accepted. I am reluctant to accept cygwin-specific patches to tools that we don't support. If someone does come up with a patch, I hope that they'll send it to the diffutils maintainer for consideration. That's the best way to get things permanently into cygwin. Otherwise, someone has to remember to apply patches with each new release. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple