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RE: patch for cygpath
- To: CP List <Cygwin-Patches at Cygwin dot Com>
- Subject: RE: patch for cygpath
- From: "Schaible, Jorg" <Joerg dot Schaible at gft dot com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:54:03 +0200
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 8:13 PM
>To: cygwin-patches@Cygwin.Com
>Subject: Re: patch for cygpath
>
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> I don't have much of an opinion on this patch however it seems to
>> needlessly complicate cygpath for minimal gain.
>>
>
>Ditto.
Well, it just ensures that the physical name is the delivered one.
>
>> I also don't see why cygpath would need to output the
>windows version of
>> windows/system. That sort of bypasses the "cyg" part of things.
>>
>
>Ditto.
I did it just for a continuous option support. It is handy dealing with
non-Cygwin apps, e.g. using Cygwin environment developing Java (all those
CLASSPATH issues).
But I don't mind, if you won't accept. Was just my point of view.
:)
Jorg