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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:04:41 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)
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"Adye, TJ (Tim)" wrote:

> Also, since the run package is now part of Cygwin (and doesn't seem to
> be maintained elsewhere), it seems an unnecessary confusion to maintain
> two branches. If you really don't like having anything not linked with
> cygwin1.dll as part of the distribution, then how about taking the
> source-code updates and leaving the extra executable out of the
> distribution - though that would be a pity for people like me who find
> this the best way to start Cygwin programs.
> 
> As I said before, run-native.exe doesn't need to live in /usr/bin, and
> could be called something else. But it is convenient to have available
> as a way to start Cygwin programs (I have been looking to releasing some
> other software to help with this, but I'm still tidying that up...).

If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify run to not
depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead LoadLibrary() it at
runtime, and if that fails fall back to whatever the native version
would have done.  Thus you get a single executable that understands
posix paths if the DLL is in the PATH and still allows to you "run
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" (or whatever it is that you're currently doing)
if the DLL is not in the PATH.  Though that itself may cause
confusion...

Brian

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