-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Aviad Lahav on 8/13/2007 7:29 AM: > I needed to use rm.exe on my project but found no decent pre-built binaries: > > - Cygwin binary was bad for me because the dependency on the DLL > and the mess it does with paths
The cygwin community is aware of this - it is the price they are willing to pay for the most complete POSIX emulation among the various Windows ports. > > - GnuWin32 had some bugs with "\" GnuWin32 has earned somewhat of a reputation on this list of being woefully out of date. > > - UnxUtils had problems with read-only files (rm -f doesn't work) I'm not that familiar with UnxUtils. Have you tried mingw? It is probably the best-maintained port that does not also require a separate dll. > > So I built my own version of rm, modified coreutils 6.9; tried to minimize > changes; remove.c was almost completely re-written using the native WIN32 > API. It now compiles with MSVC 2005 and works well. Sorry, but this list probably will not accept patches to convert to the Windows API. The gnulib list might take patches for ports of common POSIX functions, when a more efficient implementation that uses Windows API under the hood is provided, and where the patch is easy enough to maintain. But it is much easier to write portable code that uses a portable, publicly maintained API (anyone can join the Austin Group and contribute to POSIX free of charge, whereas the Windows API is proprietary and not portable). This is not meant to discourage you from submitting your patches to UnxUtils or GnuWin32, but I can also guarantee that your patches won't be accepted into the cygwin port of coreutils. > Bottom line: > > I'd like this to be committed to main CVS - how and who? Does this need code > review? This is the right list for posting proposed patches; and even if we have reasons for not incorporating them, someone else can read the archives and use the patch if they like it. The other thing you have to have to get non-trivial patches incorporated upstream is copyright disclaimer to the FSF. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGwQ3A84KuGfSFAYARAsgTAJ94Pf6z6MbJB/FrovhgGBTVB6hQ9ACeK6nP Fa8zLBmAeIV4LBZD+Yi9Hmk= =bmuV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
