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Subject: RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:40:10 +0100
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On 10 April 2007 15:30, Robert Pendell wrote:

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> Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote:
>> Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05:
>>> 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

>> That's a nice idea, but I suspect it would indeed cause more confusion
>> than any gain - especially when we're only talking about a 50k
>> executable. Imagine the program silently behaving differently if you
>> change the PATH. A nice "cygwin1.dll was not found" error message is
>> usually preferable :-) 
>> 
>> I hope that a separately-named (small) executable, perhaps installed
>> elsewhere, will be acceptable.

> I actually agree with cgf on this one but just an idea here.  If that
> kind of function was implemented then a warning could be placed to say
> something to the effect of...
> 
> WARNING: cygwin1.dll was not found in the path.  Using native windows
> paths instead.

  Or just "alias run-native='cmd /c start /b '".

  Seriously, without unix-style path conversion, what else of any substance is
left for run-native to actually *do*?  I'm convinced this whole idea is the
wrong over-engineered solution to an elementary non-problem.  An alias or
script is a far better fit to the requirements.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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