Gentoo Archives: gentoo-cygwin

From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-cygwin@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-cygwin] interest in gentoo-cygwin
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:00:22
Message-Id: 1136923176.21827.28.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-cygwin] interest in gentoo-cygwin by res
1 On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:04 +0100, res wrote:
2 > On 10.01.2006 19:59, Christian Parpart wrote:
3 > > can't believe this to be the *better* solution.
4 > > What else do we have KEYWORDS for when not for architechtures?
5 > > Although, I'd rather like to see cygwin fixed, in a way it can handle such
6 > > "valid" filenames.
7 >
8 > But then, Windows (which, after all, lies below Cygwin) does not support
9 > ':'s in names either.
10 >
11 > It does support ':' (Unicode fullwidth colon), so maybe hack Cygwin to
12 > replace ':' with ':' in filenames ;)
13 That idea is so wrong on multiple levels :-)
14 like ... how would you delete a file?
15
16 It'd be easier to kill this silly idea of drive letters and patch a unix
17 filehierarchy into windows ;-)
18
19 Anyways - minor annoyance, fixing ebuilds shouldn't be that hard.
20
21 Patrick
22 --
23 Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move

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