realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jan 31 01:50:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 19:01 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 1/30/2012 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > In particular, it is much more powerful than the realpath(1) currently
> > offered by cygutils.  Should I build my next coreutils package with
> > realpath included, and wait to upload it until we can coordinate a build
> > with cygutils dropping the weaker variant?  Or do we want to keep the
> > cygutils variant for a while longer?
> 
> I prefer standard tools when possible, and smaller cygutils. So, let's
> go ahead and coordinate removing realpath from cygutils-$next.

While you're at it, what about ascii(1)?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-10/msg00113.html


Yaakov




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