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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "Sandeep Tamhankar" <sandman@Interwoven.com>,
        "cygwin" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Packing zsh with Cygwin
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:01:25 +0400
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Someone expressed intention to maintain zsh on Cugwin several months ago. I
never heard anything since then.

zsh builds OOTB but it *does* have some Cygwin issues, notably

- windows paths handling is not transparent

- zsh makes *no* attempt to figure out binary/text open modes and relies on
Cygwin to do the correct thing. At least in one place (file mapping module,
zsh/mapfile) we may need to force binary. OTOH it makes mapped files differ
from read in.

- if zsh is provided as package we need (well, it is nice to have :-)
suitable startup files. One point is, that zsh completion has several
features targeted explicitly at Cygwin. E.g. with suitable configuration
/c/c/p/w will complete to /cygdrive/c/program\ files/winzip ... Also,
startup files should probably set case-insensitive completion as default.

-andrej

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Sandeep Tamhankar
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:06 AM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Packing zsh with Cygwin
>
>
> Recently, I downloaded and built zsh out-of-the-box in Cygwin without a
> hitch.  Kudos to the Cygwin volunteers and the zsh development team for
> making this possible.
>
> Is anyone out there planning on packaging zsh with Cygwin in the future?
>   I did a search in the cygwin-apps mailing list and got no matches.
> Given that the source does build out-of-the-box, it wouldn't be hard to
> do this.  If no one else is doing it, I'd be happy to volunteer.
>
> -Sandeep
>
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