X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:39:35 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10 Message-ID: <20111208083935.GC6602@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <566vd7hfmi3j980ic4m64d7bv91b5qm6uh@4ax.com> <20111207173808.GA25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111207180653.GB25743@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Dec 8 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into > > the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-11/msg00000.html > > All good reasons, but you are going to break backward compatibility. > At least, lyx is going to be affected. It currently works with unicode > without a glitch, but it will be broken with 1.7.10. Which raises the question why the Cygwin version of lyx uses cygwin_conv_path at all. Does it call Windows functions with the paths? If so, why? If not, why are the paths converted to Windows? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple