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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:24:52 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Linking to cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dll ?
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In-Reply-To: <118b01c1125e$e4739390$0300a8c0@ufo>; from trevorforbes@ozemail.com.au on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:02:09PM +0930

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:02:09PM +0930, Trevor Forbes wrote:
>>>I am not in a position to judge "creeping feature'ism".  It is just
>>>that these 4 *ex methods are documented and are even suggested in the
>>>Microsoft documentation.  If this memory leak is not a problem in
>>>Cygwin, then these functions should be really easy to implement since
>>>they would just call the Win32 APIs.
>>
>>They are suggested to work around MS's inability to write high-quality
>>code.  The calls would be easy to implement yes, but there is no point
>>in putting them in *cygwin*.
>
>I agree with Mo.  What is the harm in adding "minor" functions which in
>the end will help programmers, port and maintain programs more easily.
>Is that not the purpose of Cygwin.  Anything that reduces the addition
>of #ifdef __CYGWIN__ would be a "smart" move in my humble opinion.

The main purpose of cygwin is to provide a UNIX environment for Windows.
I don't see, offhand, how this applies.

I have no objections to adding a new library which provides more Microsoft
functionality but this has absolutely nothing to do with Cygwin's stated
goal.

And, in case it isn't clear, I suspect that someone is going to actually
have to write these functions and develop this library.  That's usually
the kiss of death here -- getting someone to actually do the work.

cgf

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