Olivier Langlois wrote:
Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin
are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine
to run DOS tools. That's a nice side-effect at best.
It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise
if offering a POSIX environment while coexisting nicely with DOS tools
was not one of the legacy Cygwin design goal, how comes this
feature/behavior has been included for so many years in Cygwin? How
about backward compatibility as a design goal? Backward compatibility is
a nice design goal, you know.
FLOSS is not known for keeping backward compatibility particularly high
in their list of design goals. :-)
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