Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 02:16:38 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com, h.m.brand@hccnet.nl Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis Message-ID: <20030109071638.GA13105@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, perl5-porters@perl.org Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, h.m.brand@hccnet.nl, perl5-porters@perl.org References: <000001c2b6c8$479bea30$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> <20030108045616.GB31411@redhat.com> <20030108152652.57A6.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030108152652.57A6.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:30:25PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >On Wed 08 Jan 2003 05:56, Christopher Faylor 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/