Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Edward Lam wrote: > > >> On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: >> >> Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>> I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off >>> patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth >>> including platform-specific patches like this

Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-10-01 Thread Edward Lam
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Eric Blake wrote: >> >> I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off >> patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth >> including platform-specific patches like this (no penalty to build size >>

Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-10-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Eric Blake wrote: > > I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off > patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth > including platform-specific patches like this (no penalty to build size > of non-cygwin platforms, and on cygwin, it allows 'cd c:/' to

Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

2014-09-30 Thread Eric Blake
[I noticed an old thread in my inbox while packaging dash 0.5.8 for Cygwin] On 03/28/2013 09:08 AM, Edward Lam wrote [to the cygwin list]: >> The problem is that dash tries to convert c:/windows to an absolute >> path, since it doesn't start with /. I suppose I could teach dash to >> recognize [