On Feb 11 20:22, Eric Blake wrote: > I strongly oppose option 3 - cygwin should never add '.' implicitly to the > front of a POSIX path - if you are crazy enough to want dot there, put > it there yourself explicitly. But I like option 2, of squeezing ';;' into a > single ':' (avoiding the implicit dot of $PATH '::'), and ignoring trailing > ';' > (again, avoiding the implicit dot of $PATH trailing ':'). If the user wants > dot in the middle or at the end, automagically converted from > the Windows %PATH%, then they can explicitly use ';.;' or trailing > ';.' to make their intent clear. And since Windows always implicitly > prepends '.' to %PATH%, this might cut down on the traffic to this > list of "how did . get on my $PATH?". (Although it will probably > increase the traffic of "why did ;; get turned into : instead of ::?")
That's unavoidable. Whatever you do, somebody will complain. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
