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Re: cygwin PATH reorg?
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cygwin PATH reorg?
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:20:47 -0800
- References: <19991119134736.A17795@cygnus.com>
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> Given the number of problems that seem to crop up with people on the
> cygwin mailing list, I was wondering if it made sense to have cygwin
> probe the path list looking for the directory which is essentially
> "/bin" and put this directory first in the PATH.
This doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Somewhat hidden cleverness
is really dangerous. Could better documentation possibly accomplish
the same goals? Dunno, but I would think that would be preferable.
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Geoffrey Noer Email: noer@cygnus.com
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