On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:47:57PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 9/8/2010 1:24 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 8 September 2010 17:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>>> Isn't the whole reason for Cygwin actually to enable doing Unixy things >>>> in Windows (that is, providing Windows/Unix interoperablity? >>> >>> No, that's not a key goal. From the Cygwin main web page: >>> >>> Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows >> >> Well, I (and my employer) would not be using Cygwin if it wasn't for >> the Windows integration, in particular the ability to plug POSIX and >> Windows programs together. >> >> If I just wanted to run Linux software on Windows, I'd use a virtual >> machine or coLinux. While Cygwin's lower resource usage is nice to >> have, that's easily outweighed by the inevitable compatibility and >> performance drawbacks that come with building on top of Win32. > >There are allot of different reasons people choose to use Cygwin.
Correct. And, people apparently find Cygwin useful even when their usage does not 100% align with the stated project goals. That does not mean that we're going to change the goals and, given the project goals, it certainly doesn't mean that it's a bug when a Windows-specific usage like a MS-DOS path doesn't work in a Cygwin program. cgf -- 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