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[Adam Baxter <voltagex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Err, not sure how I mashed my signature there...

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Adam Baxter <voltagex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think that depends on how far we're willing to go to avoid modifications
>> to the original source.
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> If we tried to provide grep with the failure code it expects, I think
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> that would bring us into compatibility layer territory. Instead, we
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> should just accept that that's how windows works and modify grep to
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> account for it.
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> Sounds reasonable, but probably best to defer to Garrett and other people
> who know more than me - do we focus on shallow forking the libraries, the
> applications or take it on a case by case basis? How should the CoApp
> project deal with the concepts of making the software work within the
> Windows ecosystem, rather than going down the Cygwin route of bringing
> Unixisms to Windows? (maybe that discussion belongs in a new thread?)
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>
> --Sfsm
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