On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 21:31 +0000, James Johnston wrote: > I was just about to start writing a similar message to this, but you did it > for me very perfectly! What's the point of Cygwin if it can't play nice > with other Windows programs on the system?
The "point" of Cygwin is clearly stated on our website. > Sometimes I don't understand the antagonism towards interop with native > Windows programs that don't do anything unusual and do things by the > (Windows) book. It seems like it defeats the point of the project if that > goes too far. What's wrong with being pragmatic sometimes? So you're saying that it is more important for Cygwin's sqlite3 to work with a Windows program than it is for it to work properly with other Cygwin libraries and programs? That doesn't sound very pragmatic to me. Software built for Cygwin should _always_ follow *NIX behaviour. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
