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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Path: not-for-mail From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:30:23 -0800 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3E1F113F.1080002@cotagesoft.com> References: <1042100310.8869.344.camel@lifelesslap> <006c01c2b82d$55dd70d0$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en linda w (cyg) wrote: > What were the _original_ design goals of Cygwin -- i.e. as > sponsored by "RedHat"? Cygwin predates RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/history.html (the earliest date in the file is Dec 1995). RedHat bought Cygnus Solutions (which was a shop for commercial support for GNU software, especially GCC ports to obscure and new platforms), which did the original Cygwin work. Anyone at RedHat from the original Cygwin team (the last warriors of the (in)famous "Beta 20" :-)?) wanna answer this? There's an interesting line in the early changelogs: Release Beta 8 [...] Much nicer way of describing paths, eg //c/foo is c:\foo. Suggests that the early goal *was* to provide a POSIX-y view, and the exposing of Windows paths was added as a convenience.. -- 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/