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[Ted Bullock <tbullock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boy,

I keep looking in on this project and thinking I need to make time
(somehow?) in my schedule to commit.

Sheesh,

Anyway, fork it and fix it is the right answer.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would agree. I'd *rather* not go down the route of making
> a compatibility layer for stuff, the better approach is to fix the code to
> do what's right on Windows, and deal with what comes back.
> Now, that being said, there are going to be times when we'll need to make a
> (thin-as-possible) layer to achieve our goals.
> G
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> Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] I think we'll want to fork gnulib
>
>> I think that depends on how far we're willing to go to avoid modifications
>> to the original source.
>>
>> If we tried to provide grep with the failure code it expects, I think
>>
>> that would bring us into compatibility layer territory. Instead, we
>>
>> should just accept that that's how windows works and modify grep to
>>
>> account for it.
>
> 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?)
>
> --Sfsm
>
>
>
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Ted Bullock <tbullock@xxxxxxxxxxx>