On 7-Sep-2004, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Yet this DLL accesses a "root" filesystem containing /etc/passwd, | /etc/group, /etc/fstab, terminfo, etc.. Windows filesystems are | "mounted". This smells like an "OS" install to me, even if it is | subordinate to another. The typical Windows user is dumber than a | board when it comes to Unix topics, and most are not even aware that | it is possible to access a CLI under Windows or that Windows supports | environment variables. Native windows programs may install any number of additional files or do funny things with filenames behind the scenes and you would never know about it. As long as all this behind the scenes processing works, the user never needs to know anything about it. If it fails, well, whether the software is based on Cygwin or a completely separate system, the dumber-than-a-board user will still be clueless about how to fix it. So objecting to Cygwin's tricks and not the tricks of other complex software doesn't make sense to me. jwe -- www.octave.org | www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe | Peace would shock and awe me. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
