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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 09:11:26 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: URL paths in setup.exe
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Robert Collins wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 22:24, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
>
> > Fine, but that's still a Cygwin library and doesn't exist in MinGW land.
> > I'm making a fuss for search engine sake.  So, please, let's find a
> > different way to reference it or I'll be getting questions of "Where can I
> > find the cygfile library?" on my MinGW list.
>
> Huh? It's mingw code designed for mingw, and using mingw calls. It won't
> build with -mnowin32 on cygwin, and it won't build on posix systems.
>
> It's also not a library per se - it's the io_streams_cygfile.cc and .h
> files in the setup source. It isn't visible anywhere else.
>
> No user should - ever - see cygfile:// as a reference. It's purely for
> internal use to differentiate between
> user entered paths and
> paths we *know* belong in the cygwin file system that we are creating as
> we do the install.
>
> I'm open to ideas for renaming, but ... posix:// is wrong (it's not a
> posix provider per se - it's a cygwin mounted structure provider). (And
> posix:// is the most obvious alternative to cygfile:// for me.)

The cygfile:// is fine, it's the reference to "MinGW land" which exists at
www.mingw.org that will confuse some search engine user that I'm concerned
with.  You don't have a library for "MinGW land".  You have methods that you use
use mingw to build or more precisely you use -mno-cygwin to build, correct?

Earnie.