Edward Lam <edw...@sidefx.com> wrote: > > >> On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: >> >> Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off >>> patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth >>> including platform-specific patches like this (no penalty to build size >>> of non-cygwin platforms, and on cygwin, it allows 'cd c:/' to behave as >>> shorthand for 'cd /cygdrive/c/')? If the patch lands in dash.git, then >>> I'll rebuild the cygwin port of dash to include a backport (rather than >>> waiting for 0.5.9 to be released). If there is no interest, I'd rather >>> just drop the patch. The cygwin community already states that >>> /cygdrive/c notation is the official way to access drive letters, and >>> that if 'c:/' works it is nice, but it is not a design goal to always >>> have it work. >> >> It's fine by me. >> > > Is that a yes to allow platform-specific patches into dash?
If there is zero impact on other platforms and it doesn't adversely impact the maintainability then yes. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
