From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17742 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2006 04:08:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 17735 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2006 04:08:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-29.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:08:22 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 75F2213C2DE; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:08:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:08:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: tar, win-path conversion bug Message-ID: <20060727040819.GA19076@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <44C6C0B6.9050206@tlinx.org> <44C8342A.1070704@byu.net> <20060727035831.GA5943@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <44C83ADB.5060804@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C83ADB.5060804@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:02:35PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Christopher Faylor on 7/26/2006 9:58 PM: >>>It's certainly not the highest priority on my list. I would just stick >>>with POSIX paths. >> >>What a crazy idea. > >Almost as crazy as the notion of avoiding Windows paths with cygwin >make. Who would have thought? Certainly not me. But, then, I often want to use Cygwin as a dessert topping, so my use may not be standard. cgf