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On 03/17/2011 02:32 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> Dropped cygwin-apps.
>
> Erwin, you don't seem to understand the importance of not changing
> current behavior, when replacing existing apps.  I'm trying to point out
> (a) how little your proposed package actually differs from the current
> cygutils implementations, and (b) what needs to change to make the new
> version a drop-in replacement.
>
> Because that's what you're trying to do: make a drop in replacement.
>
> Regardless of whether some current behavior of cygutils-dos2unix is good
> or bad, CHANGE is worse -- since people have been relying on the current
> behavior for years.
>

Hi Chuck,

I do understand you very well, but I come from the other side. The 
dos2unix that I packed and maintain is around on Unix/Linux since 1989. 
I assume there are much more Linux users than Cygwin users. So I don't 
want to break things on Linux. Since Cygwin tries to be Linux-alike, I 
offer this package to the cygwin community. Personally I prefer to have 
the same on Cygwin as on Linux. The cygwin community may have got used 
to the current cygwin tailored implementation. But I bet there are many 
cygwin users who also work on Linux, so there is a big chance they are 
already familiar with the version I maintain.

Erwin

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