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Re: Long filename support, soon?
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mar 6 17:39, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Adam Thompson wrote:
> >> On 06/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series. And
> >>> it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task. There is no timetable
> >>> for 1.7 as a result. But many hands make light work. If you and others
> >>> you know have hands to lend, I know Corinna has a list of tasks that can
> >>> use them.
> >>>
> >> Is this list published anywhere?
> >> I'm not a developer (unless you're porting to Sinclair ZX BASIC), but
> >> perhaps there are some tasks that us sysadmin/support/doco people can
> >> help with?
> >
> > I remember a list of tasks being sent to this list by Corrina but I can't
>
> s/rrin/rinn/
>
> That list was send to the developer's ML.
>
>
> > put my finger on it right now. As I recall, these were all development
> > tasks. Corrina would be the best one to say if there are specific tasks
> > in the areas you mentioned.
>
> I'm going to check in my changes today, which will really enable using
> long pathnames for the first time. it can now access and create long
> paths, as well as start applications stored in long paths.
>
> However, it's certainly still buggy and missing features. I'll follow
> up with what is done and what's not done on the developer's list.
>
> For the curious and the brave, the next developer's snapshot from
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots will be something to test.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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> Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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> Red Hat
Wow, that's great. Here I am being a pain about it, and it looks like
it's getting close to landing. I just want to say that I appreciate
all of your hard work on cygwin. I don't think I could use Windows
without it! :)
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