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RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:18:23 -0500
- Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
[TTTTLTLLLT'ing this to the proper list, unlike some Korns et al I could
mention]
> From: Joachim Achtzehnter
>
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > Every single day for the past month, we have had at least
> > seventy-four[*] identical duplicate redundant reports of this...
>
> Have you considered that there just might be a significant
> message hidden in this from your user community? As somebody
> who was involved in one of these earlier threads, let me also
> mention that to every one of these seventy-four[*] reports
> you see on the mailing list there is another user who
> expresses his annoyance with these changes in private emails,
> having given up on posting such things because of the hostile
> reaction one gets these days for expressing views about
> requirements that certain people here don't like.
>
"These days"? You're new 'round these parts, huh?
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > I just don't care about MS-DOS paths.
>
> Fair enough, you've made that pretty clear in previous posts.
>
It's kind of sad really: There used to be a time when Cygwin was more "POSIX
And Windows Living In Relative Harmony" than "Any flavor as long as it's
Linux".
> > If I am somehow conveying the impression that there is some
> threshold
> > of affected users which will cause me to spend my own time
> trying to
> > modify make, let me make it clear - that is not the case.
>
> If this implies that Cygwin maintainers generally "just don't
> care" about their users anymore perhaps those users will have
> to band together some day and consider creating a Cygwin fork...
>
Where do you think MinGW came from?
> Joachim
>
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Gary R. Van Sickle