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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81


Olivier Langlois wrote:
Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin
are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine
to run DOS tools.  That's a nice side-effect at best.

It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise if offering a POSIX environment while coexisting nicely with DOS tools was not one of the legacy Cygwin design goal, how comes this feature/behavior has been included for so many years in Cygwin? How about backward compatibility as a design goal? Backward compatibility is a nice design goal, you know.

FLOSS is not known for keeping backward compatibility particularly high in their list of design goals. :-)


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