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RE: patch for cygpath
- To: cygwin-patches at Cygwin dot Com
- Subject: RE: patch for cygpath
- From: "Schaible, Jorg" <Joerg dot Schaible at gft dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:51:45 +0200
- Cc: gerrit dot haase at convey dot de
Hi Chris,
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't have much of an opinion on this patch however it seems to
>>>> needlessly complicate cygpath for minimal gain.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Ditto.
>>
>>Well, it just ensures that the physical name is the delivered one.
>
>But it really doesn't matter since Windows is case insensitive and
>we're using Windows' mechanism for retrieving the name anyway. It
>just seems like "busy work".
maybe we should ask Gerrit for further reasons, he raised this issue as bug
in the list. Gerrit: It's the "cygpath -S" output.
>
>I'd like to get some opinions on it. So far we've just heard
>from Earnie.
>
and Corinna
:)
Regads,
Jorg