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: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:12:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip) Message-ID: <20010627131236.D22088@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <993648794.12881.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <3B39F797.7000608@gruntose.com> <007c01c0ff1d$ee63b460$6131800a@ebs.enron.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <007c01c0ff1d$ee63b460$6131800a@ebs.enron.net>; from binkley@bigfoot.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0500 On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0500, B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote: >From: "Fred T. Hamster" >>i for one cannot accept the rationale being promulgated that a system >>for unix emulation on win32 should be ignorant of the native platform's >>path specification, when calling into the environment from windows is >>clearly a desirable capability. to me, that rationale seems to > >It would also be nice to see more said of other alternatives, such as >UWIN, and how the compare with Cygwin. I'm sure they have good ideas >we can reuse, just as Cygwin has good ideas they can reuse. Yep. I think that this is a good idea. It would be nice to hear how other packages handle this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/