On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:57:02AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I don't entirely understand when people think it's ok to make sweeping >> changes for 1.7 and when they think we need to be conservative. > >MHO is that 1.7+gcc4 is already such a sweeping change (e.g. >"conservative" left the building sometime last year), that if we DO plan >on any more such sweeping changes before cygwin2.dll it's better to do >'em now. > >OTOH, if we DON'T actually plan on any more such changes, then there's >no reason to make changes gratuitously, no matter how Just Mean We Are. > >> I think it is very regrettable that Cygwin doesn't have the same int >> types as linux and it would be interesting to see how much would be >> broken by changing these types. > >"Interesting" in the sense of the old Chinese curse [*], I assume?
Or as in the "WJM" aforementioned sense. cgf
