Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:30:20AM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: >Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: >>Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05: >>>If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify run to not >>>depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead LoadLibrary() it at >>>runtime, and if that

RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 April 2007 15:30, Robert Pendell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: >> Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05: >>> If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify >>> run to not depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead >>>

Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-10 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05: >> If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify >> run to not depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead >> LoadLibrary() it at runtime, and if that fails fall back

Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:00:04PM +0100, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't see any reason to include a non-cygwin version of a program in >>the *cygwin* distribution. If you don't have cygwin1.dll in the path, >>then you aren't running in a cygwin environment. >> >>This i

Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: If that did what we wanted, then we wouldn't need the run package in the first place. The run command hides the console for console applications (or at least those that Windows thinks of as console applications) like xterm. "cmd" gives you that pesky console. Well, cgf sp

RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 April 2007 22:07, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Dave Korn wrote on 09 April 2007 17:16: >> >>> You might have a better idea for where the non-Cygwin version >>> should go - I just put it in /usr/bin/run-native.exe. >> >> Or just "alias run-native='cmd /c start '". > > If that di

RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Brian Dessent wrote on 09 April 2007 22:05: > > If you really want a compromise solution, you could modify > run to not depend on cygwin1.dll at link-time but instead > LoadLibrary() it at runtime, and if that fails fall back to > whatever the native version would have done. Thus you get a > s

RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Hi Dave, Dave Korn wrote on 09 April 2007 17:16: > > > You might have a better idea for where the non-Cygwin version > > should go - I just put it in /usr/bin/run-native.exe. > > Or just "alias run-native='cmd /c start '". If that did what we wanted, then we wouldn't need the run package in

Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Brian Dessent
"Adye, TJ (Tim)" wrote: > Also, since the run package is now part of Cygwin (and doesn't seem to > be maintained elsewhere), it seems an unnecessary confusion to maintain > two branches. If you really don't like having anything not linked with > cygwin1.dll as part of the distribution, then how ab

RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Hi Christopher, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I don't see any reason to include a non-cygwin version of a > program in the *cygwin* distribution. If you don't have > cygwin1.dll in the path, then you aren't running in a cygwin > environment. > > This is not to say that I don't understand perf

RE: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 April 2007 15:33, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > For many years I've continued to use Chuck Wilson's old run-1.1.4 > because it included a version that was linked without Cygwin > (run-native.exe, built with VC). Although it doesn't have all the > features of the Cygwin version (

Re: Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:32:35PM +0100, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: >For many years I've continued to use Chuck Wilson's old run-1.1.4 >because it included a version that was linked without Cygwin >(run-native.exe, built with VC). Although it doesn't have all the >features of the Cygwin version (eg. it

Suggestion for run (with patch)

2007-04-09 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Hi Alexander, For many years I've continued to use Chuck Wilson's old run-1.1.4 because it included a version that was linked without Cygwin (run-native.exe, built with VC). Although it doesn't have all the features of the Cygwin version (eg. it can't translate Cygwin mount points), it does allow