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Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:30:25PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>On Wed 08 Jan 2003 05:56, Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> >I'm sorry. I thought the cygwin project -- was to provide a Posix type
>> >platform to [aid, assist, help] in porting *nix/gnu utils to the Win32
>> >environment.
>>
>> Cygwin's primary purpose is to provide a UNIX environment for Windows.
>> Although it can be used in other ways, the basic purpose is not to
>> provide a stepping stone to helping port programs to native Windows.
>> Things like Win32 path names and accommodating pure-win32 processes are
>> *always* of secondary importance wrt getting the UNIX bits right.
>
>Sorry to drop in like this,
No problem.
>but how much influence do you have in Cygwin?
I'm the head of the project.
>How much are you aware that 1.3.18-1 does fail in the current smokes where
>1.3.16 passed? Gerrit seems to be quite busy these days.
I wasn't aware of that but then I haven't been reading perl5-porters for a while
now. I don't know what smokes is but I assume it's a periodic test run of perl
on various platforms.
Are you up for trying a cygwin snapshot? http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
There were a few problems fixed for the next release that will be reflected in
the latest snapshot.
>What's the stance of cygwin in threading?
We're for it! We have pretty extensive pthreads support.
cgf
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