Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:57:02 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why not which 2.16 instead of 1.5? Message-ID: <20030918075702.GS9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B61AD69.226D08D6.0CE3B6DD@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B61AD69.226D08D6.0CE3B6DD@netscape.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:41:39PM -0400, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > | the which package shipped in the Cygwin distro is not GNU which. > | Therefore the version number do not correspond. > > Is there a particular reason why Cygwin _doesn't_ use GNU which? Are > there issues with GNU which on Cygwin that we should know about? > > In any case, I found out that there were no man pages for Cygwin which, > and if I remember correctly, there was no which --help either. GNU which has both. Either would be nice, and anyway with help2man you don't have to make both manually. The reason is that this which is my own implementation and the one I contributed right from the beginning. If you don't like it, feel free to take over Cygwin which maintainership. I have no problem stepping aside. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/