[Review: no go] script-20041106-1

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sun Nov 7 05:16:00 GMT 2004


On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:30:54PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:04:56PM -0800, Andrey Butov wrote:
>> >The script command here is identical in options to the Solaris/Darwin
>> >implementation, meaning it takes the -a option to append and nothing
>> >else.  There are other implementations which offer more options, but
>> >I've used the Solaris version for years, and wanted to implement a
>> >version identical to that one to Cygwin.  To cygwin implementations
>> >have to follow a certain specific UNIX implementation?
>>
>> Ok.  My very strong preference is that we should be using the same
>> tools as most linux distros.  SuSE and Fedora say this:
>>
>> NAME
>>      script - make typescript of terminal session
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>>      script [-a] [-c COMMAND] [-f] [-q] [-t] [file]
>>
>> I'd rather not deviate any further from the linux standard by including
>> tools which do not conform to linux usage.
>
><innocent look>
>Does this mean we're chucking ash?
><evil grin>

I had hoped that using the words "any further" would signify that I do
understand that there are parts of cygwin that are not like linux and
vainly hoped that using them would prevent this type of inevitable
comment, humorous or otherwise.

A truly discerning individual might even deduce that the confusion which
results from having non-standard packages like ash in the cygwin
distribution is a good reason for keeping more non-standard packages
out of the distribution.

cgf



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