| AW: [cdt-dev] PathEntryUtil should honor cygwin absolute paths |
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OK, I have created https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=156187 to
capture the further discussion and have taken the liberty to copy-paste the
relevant mailing list responses to the bug.
I'll try to cook up a suggestion about how we can resolve
this.
Thanks,
Norbert
Von: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Doug Schaefer Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. September 2006 13:59 An: CDT General developers list. Betreff: RE: [cdt-dev] PathEntryUtil should honor cygwin absolute paths Yes, please be clear
that using cygwin on Windows is optional. We have already caused a lot of
confusion for poor mingw users (and there is a bug open on that) and I will be
introducing the integration with the Windows SDK soon. On the other hand,
another thing to think about is cross-compilers that run on cygwin which use
cygpath. In the end, it really is the build tools that decide whether you are
using cygwin or not. All in all, cygwin is
good and evil all at the same time. The JRE doesn’t know about the cygwin file
system. Maybe this is a use for the Eclipse File System to allow users to use
cygwin paths while working in Eclipse, maybe not. Cygwin does kindly record it’s
mappings in the Windows registry. But whatever we do, we can’t mess up the use
of native paths on Windows, and remember ‘/usr/include’ is a valid native path
which almost always has a different meaning with
cygwin. |