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On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:09:03PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote:Christopher Faylor wrote:On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:28PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote:(snip)Do I have to make the observation again that whether this is the case or not, it is not a primary goal of the Cygwin project to support these people?Yes. Did it ever cross your mind that the whole "Linux on Windows" thing is pretty useless if it cannot be used in the "real world".
Death of Cygwin predicted? Everybody panic and/or sip?
I mean, if people want to have a plain vanilla Linux thingy they can just install it. Grab a Redhat, Suse or Debian DVD and everything works fine.
I suspect that the "Well, they can just install Linux (floppies, CDs, DVDs) if they feel like it" observation has been made several times a year for the last ten years. It's obviously not a very powerful argument since Cygwin is still here and you can't really assert that the only reason it is here is because make understood MS-DOS paths or bash dealt properly with \r\n line endings.
I doubt that Eric will want to deal with the fallout of having bash not understand \r\n line endings but, if he does, it would be his decision and, again, I would support it 100%. I am very eager to see things like configure scripts work faster and if we have to drop a few scared or lazy people along the way to accomplish that goal, that's fine with me. I have no problem at all with being a part of a smaller community which doesn't need to use notepad to edit their bash scripts.
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