X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46254976.4000308@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:25:58 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070308 Fedora/1.5.0.10-2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: .exe magic Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Here's a naive thought. See if it makes any sense. We have lots of complicated logic to try to transparently handle ".exe" extensions. We have ".exe" extensions because Windows 9x/Me requires it to execute binaries. For the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release (date TBD), we're dropping support for Windows 9x/Me. Does it follow that complex ".exe" logic could be dropped from 1.7 as a result? I realize this would be a hard break with the 1.5 Cygwin series since it would force all Cygwin packages to remove the ".exe" extensions, thereby excluding 9x/Me users from these package updates - assuming they would otherwise be compatible - even though the Cygwin package would not be. But there has to be something worse about it than just this. I'm mean, this has to be a real stupid idea... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/