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From: Julio Costa <costaju AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:34:14 +0100
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 16:51, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:50:34AM -0400, Stephen Morton wrote:
>>We use a make environment that is part cygwin and part pure windows
>>executables (long story). And it all works in linux too. I suspect
>>it would break in the worst ugly ways if the .exe magic did not exist.
>
> And, it is this kind of thing that the .exe magic is trying to help. =C2=
=A0It
> wasn't implemented because of Windows 95. =C2=A0It is there because many =
UNIX
> apps expect executables to have .exe extensions.
>

!!!! What kind of executables? Windows ones? Fine.
Cygwin ones? Only if it is poorly written Makefile - i.e., does not
use $(EXEEXT)...
Is this one of those cases where the cumulating user errors are more
important than the ultimate project objective (POSIX
compliance/transparency)?

> Changing to whole distribution to not use .exe is a huge undertaking for
> little gain.
>

I think it is a little more than... a little gain. But that's
subjective, of course.
Nevertheless, I do agree - it's a daunting task. Just one that doesn't
necessarily must be done all at once...

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