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Re: URL paths in setup.exe
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 22:24, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Fine, but that's still a Cygwin library and doesn't exist in MinGW land.
> I'm making a fuss for search engine sake. So, please, let's find a
> different way to reference it or I'll be getting questions of "Where can I
> find the cygfile library?" on my MinGW list.
Huh? It's mingw code designed for mingw, and using mingw calls. It won't
build with -mnowin32 on cygwin, and it won't build on posix systems.
It's also not a library per se - it's the io_streams_cygfile.cc and .h
files in the setup source. It isn't visible anywhere else.
No user should - ever - see cygfile:// as a reference. It's purely for
internal use to differentiate between
user entered paths and
paths we *know* belong in the cygwin file system that we are creating as
we do the install.
I'm open to ideas for renaming, but ... posix:// is wrong (it's not a
posix provider per se - it's a cygwin mounted structure provider). (And
posix:// is the most obvious alternative to cygfile:// for me.)
Rob