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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040819145632.03439528@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:08:57 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails In-Reply-To: <20040819155144.GC10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <41235C84.7060300@gtt-technologies.de> <4123B56F.6010003@gymel.com> <41245BEE.4090900@gtt-technologies.de> <921297065040.20040819105955@familiehaase.de> <41247824.2070901@gymel.com> <412481BC.3010000@gymel.com> <4124A107.2070403@gymel.com> <791319485950.20040819171336@familiehaase.de> <20040819155144.GC10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote: >On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode >> mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. > >Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project >already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should >have been good for. > Geoffrey Noer, the Cygwin maintainer before Chris and Corinna, felt that full compatibility with Windows was a primary goal and POSIX/UNIX compatibility was a close second (at least he expressed these views at the time he was running the show). This may have been a common vision held by others who brought Cygwin mounts into existence. I don't remember a time when mounts weren't used in Cygwin (I doubt there was such a time ;-) ) but I do recall when binary mounts were not the default, so clearly there was a feeling that text mounts were important at one time in a very real way. Not that I agree with that view. ;-) BTW, I'm not bringing this up for any real important reason. It's largely trivia but since the topic came up, I thought I'd share my recollections. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/