X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:34:25 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Starting some notes on large paths... what's the right place?(Re: large paths in cygwin.) Message-ID: <20070711073425.GX6851@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4686950F DOT E3D9ED56 AT dessent DOT net> <00c901c7c342$983ed160$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20070710230622 DOT GA11687 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070710230622.GA11687@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 10 19:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I don't want to speak for Corinna but I'm not really interested in > spending a lot of time discussing what needs to be done. Corinna and I > have been talking about this for years and know what we need to do. We > will get to it eventually. > > The only help we really need is the help of not insinuating that we're > being stubborn, stupid, or cruel for having opinions about the UTF-8 > patch and for not quickly implementing a replacement. That's pretty much as I think about it. We wil start implementing long path names at one point since it's planned for 1.7.0. But there's no reason for haste. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/