colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

[Rob Walker <rwalker at qualcomm dot com>]

The below message was originally, inappropriately sent to cygwin-apps. 
Although cgf has no interest in spending his time on answering my 
questions, I thought I'd solicit the opinions of any package maintainer 
who is interested.

Thanks,
Rob

==== original message begins =======

I didn't mean for anyone (especially the package maintainer) to infer
that make wasn't being actively supported.  My apologies for any
misunderstanding.

I'm very interested in your opinions on colons in paths.  I'd prefer to
hear directly what they are, to avoid any misunderstanding that might
arise from me trying to glean them from the archives.

Questions I have in particular:
1. what are your thoughts on POSIX support for colons in paths?
2. what are your thoughts on Cygwin's existing support for DOS paths?

Thanks in advance.

-Rob

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:51:02PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote:
>
> > I'd like to get make updated to accept paths with colons on Cygwin.  The
> > patch that enables this behavior has been available and in fairly wide use
> > for almost 2 years.
> >
> > I've read http://cygwin.com/setup.html.  I've followed the instructions up
> > to "Updating a Package", which seems to imply that only package owners can
> > update a package.
> >
> > How does a non-package owner go about updating a package?  Who's the
> > current make package owner?  Is make available for adoption?
>
> The last update to make was in January of this year so it is obviously
> being actively supported.
>
> Make is supported by me and I've made my opinions on the matter of
> colons clear.  When there is a new release of make, I'll make a new
> cygwin release available.  If the new release handles colons
> transparently I won't actively break the patch but it won't be actively
> supported either, i.e., I won't respond to bug reports on it.
>
> This isn't really open for discussion so please don't send an
> impassioned plea.  It isn't appropriate for this list and it has been
> discussed to death on the Cygwin list.
>
> cgf



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