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On Jul 15 16:54, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:51:29PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jul 15 20:23, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Charles Wilson <cygwin <at> cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Eric Blake wrote:
> >> > > Also, volinfo is such a helpful debug utility; should we go ahead and add 
> >> it to 
> >> > > the utils directory, and compile it alongside other tools like cygcheck as 
> >> part 
> >> > > of the base package?
> >> > 
> >> > It's already in the csih package, under /usr/lib/csih/ but if you want
> >> > to "promote" it to src/winsup/ that's fine. When/if that happens, we'll
> >> > need to coordinate the release of cygwin-1.7.x-y and the new csih.
> >> 
> >> Oh - that's why I didn't find it - csih renamed it to getVolInfo, and it is not 
> >> part of the default PATH.
> >> 
> >> And if we DO want to promote it,
> >
> >Nah.  It's ok as a herlper tool, but it's not worth to be put into
> >winsup/utils.  Maybe as part of cygcheck, but even if so, not now.
> 
> Yeah, I was going to say that it should go into cygcheck myself.
> 
> Hmm.  I wonder if cygcheck should be a standalone utility so that we can
> update it without needing to update the DLL.

We could split out a cygwin-utils package at one point.  But it's
nothing I'd consider for 1.7.1.


Corinna

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