At 01:35 PM 8/21/2006, Dave Korn wrote: >On 21 August 2006 18:28, William A. Hoffman wrote: > > >> However, one thing that might have averted this thread would have been an >> email >> to the cygwin list, (prior to the release announcement) that described the >> change you were going to make. > > The hypothesis that someone who doesn't bother watching out for one kind of >announcement related to make is going to be watching out for another kind of >announcement related to make seems implausible to me.
Perhaps, but that benefit was not one of the two I listed. I agree, that it most likely would have been missed. However, as a separate subject line of, make is changing beware, it may have been noticed. Let's face make is not a project you expect to see a bunch of change happening on, especially a change that breaks existing makefiles. -Bill -- 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/
