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RE: partnership with the Xouvert project?
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>, Pau Aliagas <linuxnow at newtral dot org>
- Cc: xouvert-general at nongnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:48:56 -0000
- Subject: RE: partnership with the Xouvert project?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:22:42AM +0100, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> >I've just subscribed to the list to tell you the same thing
> about arch and
> >xouvert. Some small problems have arisen using arch in
> cygwin and there
> >was a consensus that changes needed to be applied to cygwin
> to have a nice
> >and full support. The problems were related to path lengths
> and, maybe,
> >you could help us with this issue. It would be a nice
> initial cooperation.
>
> I don't think path lengths are an issue at the moment, for the Xouvert
> project to be able to work with Cygwin. The issue that is
> important is
> the file renaming issue. I've posted to the mailing list to let Tom
> know that Cygwin support is important to us; hopefully he will reply
> soon.
>
Just a WAG but, do the file naming problems if your using a "managed mode"
mount ?
from the man page of cywin mount.
"managed - directory is managed by cygwin. Mixed case and special
characters in filenames are allowed."