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Gerald S. Williams wrote:
Easier != portable. My arugment is for portability and regardless of how much hand standing you do in Cygwin it's still not portable.Earnie Boyd wrote:The argument has nothing to do with Windows vs Unix.I told you I'm not taking sides. Adding support for POSIX-compatible naming simply makes porting of Unix applications easier.
Oh, I know that selling the idea of portability is tough. However, changing a file name isn't changing functionality.Consider that a change like this requires retesting on every platform, some of which may not be available to the maintainer. If the code has remained unchanged for ages and runs on a myriad of Unices, requesting this type of change for portability's sake can be quite a hard sell. And bringing those types of applications to Windows is something that Cygwin does extremely well.
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