X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Enrico Forestieri Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <566vd7hfmi3j980ic4m64d7bv91b5qm6uh@4ax.com> <20111207173808.GA25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111207180653.GB25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111208083935.GC6602@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111212132633.GC23590@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Would it be ok if it works the old way (WIN_A uses the Cygwin codeset) > for applications built under 1.7.9 and earlier, and the new way (WIN_A > uses Win32 ANSI/OEM codepage) for applications built under 1.7.10 and > later? That means the current lyx continues to work and you can patch > lyx upstream accordingly to follow the new behaviour. This would certainly preserve backward compatibility, so it is Ok. However, may I suggest to add two other enums, namely, CCP_WIN_TO_POSIX and CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN, that preserve encoding? This is also useful, as not always one has to convert to/from Windows style paths for calling native APIs. Thanks, -- Enrico -- 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