From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15465 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2006 14:34:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 14146 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2006 14:34:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-229.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.229) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:34:06 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id F12C113C042; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:34:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:34:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Message-ID: <20060817143404.GA24718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <20060816221743.GA11720@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060816223834.GC11720@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060817071227.GB28679@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060817071227.GB28679@calimero.vinschen.de> 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/msg00224.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:12:27AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 16 18:38, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I think linux probably has some kind of /proc file option setting to >>understand drive letters. Probably cygwin should emulate that. > >As far as I know there's no such option. It seems to me this is really >called for and somebody should implement it. Along these lines there >should be another /proc option which finally allows Linux users to use >the beloved backslashes as path separators. I can't understand why >Linus deliberately changed the path separator from backslash to slash, >thus undermining an industry standard. Intolerable. I think it's probably just the standard Free Software "My way is better" mentality. The one thing that really bugs me about OSS is the insistence on tinkering with tried-and-true ways of doing things. For instance, the Gnome interface is just different enough from the standard Windows interface to drive any user who has to flip back and forth between the two up the wall. Another real annoyance is the use of '-' and '--' for option specifiers. Windows uses just a single '/', just like VMS and TOPS-10. Both OS's were around long before UNiX/LinUX but that didn't stop the developers from inventing their own way of doing things. Sometimes I think about writing my own OS which corrects these inequities but I really just don't have the time... cgf