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Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:01:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?
- References: <4F26FE5C.8090608@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
On 1/30/2012 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> In particular, it is much more powerful than the realpath(1) currently
> offered by cygutils. Should I build my next coreutils package with
> realpath included, and wait to upload it until we can coordinate a build
> with cygutils dropping the weaker variant? Or do we want to keep the
> cygutils variant for a while longer?
I prefer standard tools when possible, and smaller cygutils. So, let's
go ahead and coordinate removing realpath from cygutils-$next.
I should have some time in the next few days to do this -- and the
pending csih bugfix...
--
Chuck