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Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails


At 03:13 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:08:57PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 11:51 AM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
>>>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>>>Sigh.  If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
>>>>mounts at all.  I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.
>>>
>>>Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the
>>>project already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what
>>>that should have been good for.
>>
>>Geoffrey Noer, the Cygwin maintainer before Chris and Corinna, felt
>>that full compatibility with Windows was a primary goal and POSIX/UNIX
>>compatibility was a close second (at least he expressed these views at
>>the time he was running the show).  This may have been a common vision
>>held by others who brought Cygwin mounts into existence.  I don't
>>remember a time when mounts weren't used in Cygwin (I doubt there was
>>such a time ;-) ) but I do recall when binary mounts were not the
>>default, so clearly there was a feeling that text mounts were important
>>at one time in a very real way.  Not that I agree with that view.  ;-)
>>
>>BTW, I'm not bringing this up for any real important reason.  It's
>>largely trivia but since the topic came up, I thought I'd share my
>>recollections.
>
>I think the decision to do things this way probably came from Steve
>Chamberlain.  I wonder if it was just easier to have text mode mounts
>back in the era before there was an emacs or a vi available and you
>needed to use notepad or wordpad for editing.
>
>Of course, both have been available since 1995 at least, so that's
>probably not it.
>
>There was also at least one major Cygnus customer (Intel) who used to
>adamantly demand that text mode work reliably, IIRC.


Well, that would do it.  If that's not enough of a reason to boycott 
Intel, I don't know what is. ;-)


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