X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:26:34 -0500 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <20060816200428.GA27256@calimero.vinschen.de> <400BDC416E2A0042AA35DF3919BB8A514D46DC@mail.mtl.proksim.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <400BDC416E2A0042AA35DF3919BB8A514D46DC@mail.mtl.proksim.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Olivier Langlois wrote: >> Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin >> are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine >> to run DOS tools. That's a nice side-effect at best. > > It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise > if offering a POSIX environment while coexisting nicely with DOS tools > was not one of the legacy Cygwin design goal, how comes this > feature/behavior has been included for so many years in Cygwin? How > about backward compatibility as a design goal? Backward compatibility is > a nice design goal, you know. FLOSS is not known for keeping backward compatibility particularly high in their list of design goals. :-) -- Matthew Websites such as ... Wikipedia ... are reputed to occupy users for periods in excess of 5 hours. -- Wikipedia article on Internet Addiction -- 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/