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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:33:40 -0500
To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: New winsup layout
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In-Reply-To: <19991223103112.B3019@cygnus.com>; from noer@cygnus.com on Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:31:12AM -0800

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 10:31:12AM -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 22, 1999, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>[...]
>> This essentially moves all of the cygwin-only stuff into its own
>> directory, adds an extra windows-only include (i.e., Anders w32api
>> stuff), and leaves everything else
>
>I really like this idea (although if you're going to change this,
>perhaps you might also want to change "winsup" to something a little
>easier to understand?  (Not that I have any suggestions).

I actually think that "winsup" makes slightly more sense now with the
new scheme but I agree that it would be nice to change.

What would you change it to?  win32?

>>We had also discussed moving the w32api and mingw directory up a level
>>into "devo" but, personally, I like having all of the windows stuff
>>under one roof.
>
>Me too.  The top level directory is pretty cluttered as it is.

And, it seems like the (unofficial?) convention is for OS specific stuff
to be in one directory tree off of devo.

cgf

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