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Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:00:04PM +0100, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I don't see any reason to include a non-cygwin version of a program in
>>the *cygwin* distribution.  If you don't have cygwin1.dll in the path,
>>then you aren't running in a cygwin environment.
>>
>>This is not to say that I don't understand perfectly why someone might
>>want to not use cygwin or how wonderful it might be not to use
>>cygwin1.dll.  This just isn't an issue we need to deal with here.
>
>This is nothing to do with knocking Cygwin.  I'm talking about using
>run-native.exe to start Cygwin programs.  However, when starting Cygwin
>programs from Windows, I find it clearer to setup the PATH (and perhaps
>start ancillary programs like Exceed) before invoking a Cygwin program.

I tried to make it clear that I understand why someone might want this.
However, this is the *cygwin* mailing list which supports the "cygwin*
distribution.  The only time we include non-cygwin utilities in this
distribution is to help in situations (like setup.exe or cygcheck.exe)
where including a non-cygwin application is inavoidable.

So, sorry, but your request to include a non-cygwin version of a program
in the cygwin distribution has been vetoed.  It's entirely up to the
maintainer if they want to include the facility in the source code to
build without cygwin however.

cgf

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