realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sun Feb 5 20:53:00 GMT 2012


On 1/30/2012 7:01 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 1/30/2012 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> In particular, it is much more powerful than the realpath(1) currently
>> offered by cygutils.  Should I build my next coreutils package with
>> realpath included, and wait to upload it until we can coordinate a build
>> with cygutils dropping the weaker variant?  Or do we want to keep the
>> cygutils variant for a while longer?
>
> I prefer standard tools when possible, and smaller cygutils. So, let's
> go ahead and coordinate removing realpath from cygutils-$next.

I'm ready to cut a new release of cygutils (w.o. ascii.exe and 
realpath.exe) as soon as Eric is ready to upload a new version of coreutils.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps-cvs/2012-q1/msg00000.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps-cvs/2012-q1/msg00001.html

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Chuck



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