On 03/16/2011 10:38 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
Moved to main cygwin list for more feedback.
Background: currently the following utilities
unix2dos
dos2unix
u2d
d2u
are all provided by the cygutils package. They are, in fact, all
hardlinks/copies of the same 'conv.e
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 17:38 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> So: I don't see any insurmountable problems with entirely replacing
> cygutils' unix2dos/dos2unix/u2d/d2u programs with these other versions.
> (I would hope that cygwin's package would provide a u2d.exe hardlinked
> to unix2dos.exe, etc)
Moved to main cygwin list for more feedback.
Background: currently the following utilities
unix2dos
dos2unix
u2d
d2u
are all provided by the cygutils package. They are, in fact, all
hardlinks/copies of the same 'conv.exe' program, developed specifically
for cygwin.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 04:05:17PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
On 3/16/2011 3:32 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:29:51PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
An alternative would be to modify cygutils+dos2unix packages such that
t
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 04:05:17PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 3/16/2011 3:32 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:29:51PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>>> An alternative would be to modify cygutils+dos2unix packages such that
>>> the user can select the flavor of dos
On 3/16/2011 3:32 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:29:51PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>> An alternative would be to modify cygutils+dos2unix packages such that
>> the user can select the flavor of dos2unix/unix2dos commands with
>> /usr/sbin/alternatives. If cygutils
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:29:51PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> On 03/16/2011 04:49 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>> This is, again, something that you can't assume. We don't know how
>>> people use these tools. So, if we do decide to make the switch, you
>>> w
Erwin Waterlander wrote:
On 03/16/2011 04:49 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
This is, again, something that you can't assume. We don't know how
people use these tools. So, if we do decide to make the switch, you
will have to be dedicated to being active in responding to problem
reports on the m
On 03/16/2011 04:49 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
This is, again, something that you can't assume. We don't know how
people use these tools. So, if we do decide to make the switch, you
will have to be dedicated to being active in responding to problem
reports on the mailing list. And, if peop
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 03:52:36PM +0100, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>On 03/16/2011 02:52 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Then you're going to have to explain why the other implementation is
>> better (not just "but that's the one the linux people use": cygwin is
>
>Hi Chuck,
>
>I think it's a good a
On 03/16/2011 02:52 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
Then you're going to have to explain why the other implementation is
better (not just "but that's the one the linux people use": cygwin is
Hi Chuck,
I think it's a good argument. Most cygwin programs are ported from
Unix/Linux. Scripts that come
On 3/16/2011 3:59 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> dos2unix on cygwin is different, it is 'conv'. The implementation I
> propose is used on major Linux distributions. You could keep 'conv' on
> cygwin. I propose to obsolete the links dos2unix and unix2dos to conv,
> and replace them with the dos2unix
On 03/15/2011 11:17 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
dos2unix is already part of cygwin. 'cygcheck -p dos2unix' shows that
it is part of cygutils, so I see no reason to repackage it as an
alternative build.
Hi,
dos2unix on cygwin is different, it is 'conv'. The implementation I
propose is used on majo
On 03/15/2011 04:05 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I propose package 'dos2unix' for cygwin. Dos2unix is part of Fedora,
> Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, and Arch Linux. The homepage is
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html
dos2unix is already part of cygwin. 'cygcheck
Hi,
I propose package 'dos2unix' for cygwin. Dos2unix is part of Fedora,
Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, and Arch Linux. The homepage is
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html
I have prepared packages which can be downloaded from
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/cygwin/dos2unix/
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