X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MAY_BE_FORGED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D821D89.5020105@xs4all.nl> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:41:13 +0100 From: Erwin Waterlander User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1 References: <4D7FE2A7 DOT 8080409 AT xs4all DOT nl> <4D7FE57A DOT 4020903 AT redhat DOT com> <4D806DCF DOT 5090803 AT xs4all DOT nl> <4D80C0B8 DOT 8090603 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <4D80CEB4 DOT 7090005 AT xs4all DOT nl> <20110316154913 DOT GA18995 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4D80DEAF DOT 6020307 AT xs4all DOT nl> <4D810FAF DOT 6040609 AT t-online DOT de> <20110316193249 DOT GA15365 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4D8117FD DOT 40507 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <20110316201821 DOT GA773 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4D812DBE DOT 1090607 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <4D81CED1 DOT 9050601 AT xs4all DOT nl> <4D820D62 DOT 4030403 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> In-Reply-To: <4D820D62.4030403@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple