On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 06:28:00PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > | Cygwin lets you use both windows and posix paths in posix functions. > | I find this very handy. > > And this is the crux of the matter I guess. If you happen to use a > non-posix function your are lost...
Not really. I know that I am using a non-posix function so I will convert the path from whatever style to windows. Cygwin gives you functions to do that. > | > The problem is of course that cygwin tries to play on both sides, and > | > those sides are not really compatible... > | > | It only suffices that you consider both path styles possible. > > Not really... > > Is '/foo/bar' an absolute path? On posix the answer is 'Yes!', on > windows it is 'No!Ã', on cygwin it is 'Depends!' On cygwin it is 'Yes!', too. > Which of course makes it very hard to write applications that both > tries to play nice with native windows (Not only play nice with, but > also 'be a native application') and at the same time be a cygwin application. Then you are saying that my version of LyX (doing exactly that) does not exist?! I am happily using it from several months without any problem so far. I have only to keep an eye on you to avoid being thwarted ;-) -- Enrico
