On Dec 9 07:48, Brian Dessent wrote:
The way I see it, in a perfect world, this library would be BSD/MIT
licensed, or at the very least LGPL, so that foreign programs by 3PPs
could use it unencumbered, so that they can function better with Cygwin.
However, winsup/utils/path.cc is under the
Christopher Faylor wrote:
FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw libcygpath really appeals to me
and it's been an idea I've been meaning to look at for a while. It
would be a library that knows how to read the mount table, and do basic
path conversions, without depending on cygwin1.dll. Then
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:48:24AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw libcygpath really appeals to me
and it's been an idea I've been meaning to look at for a while. It
would be a library that knows how to read the mount table, and do
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I think there is very small chance of that. IIRC, some of that code is
straight out of the cygwin DLL itself.
I think that anyone who had studied the cygwin path handling code would
have a tough time proving that there was no taintedness if they tried
to produce
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:29:06AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I think there is very small chance of that. IIRC, some of that code is
straight out of the cygwin DLL itself.
I think that anyone who had studied the cygwin path handling code would
have a tough time proving
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:51:56PM -0600, William J. Leslie wrote:
Note: I am rephrasing the question I asked last time (for which the
conversation drifted into GPL and licensing issues).
My program depends on cygwin DLLs, my installer must make sure these
dependencies are satisfied. I've heard
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:51:56PM -0600, William J. Leslie wrote:
Note: I am rephrasing the question I asked last time (for which the
conversation drifted into GPL and licensing issues).
My program depends on cygwin DLLs, my installer must
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Or you could look at how setup.exe/cygcheck does it and help extract the
mount code into a library that could be linked into other apps.
FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw libcygpath really appeals to me
and it's been an idea I've been meaning to look at for a while.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:30:37PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Or you could look at how setup.exe/cygcheck does it and help extract
the mount code into a library that could be linked into other apps.
FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw libcygpath really appeals to me
and
From: William J. Leslie
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: Practical method for automatic Cygwin install?
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Note: I am rephrasing the question I asked last time (for
which the conversation drifted
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