On Jul 15 16:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:51:29PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 15 20:23, Eric Blake wrote: > >> Charles Wilson <cygwin <at> cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes: > >> > >> > > >> > Eric Blake wrote: > >> > > Also, volinfo is such a helpful debug utility; should we go ahead and > >> > > add > >> it to > >> > > the utils directory, and compile it alongside other tools like > >> > > cygcheck as > >> part > >> > > of the base package? > >> > > >> > It's already in the csih package, under /usr/lib/csih/ but if you want > >> > to "promote" it to src/winsup/ that's fine. When/if that happens, we'll > >> > need to coordinate the release of cygwin-1.7.x-y and the new csih. > >> > >> Oh - that's why I didn't find it - csih renamed it to getVolInfo, and it > >> is not > >> part of the default PATH. > >> > >> And if we DO want to promote it, > > > >Nah. It's ok as a herlper tool, but it's not worth to be put into > >winsup/utils. Maybe as part of cygcheck, but even if so, not now. > > Yeah, I was going to say that it should go into cygcheck myself. > > Hmm. I wonder if cygcheck should be a standalone utility so that we can > update it without needing to update the DLL.
We could split out a cygwin-utils package at one point. But it's nothing I'd consider for 1.7.1. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
