New implementation of pseudo console support (experimental)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 18 14:30, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:19:12 +0200
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi Takashi,
> > 
> > On Jul  1 20:47, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Revise the patch to fit the current git head.
> > 
> > are you satisfied with the code?  If you want to merge it,
> > I'd bump Cygwin to 3.2.
> 
> Since this new implementation has both advantages and disadvantages,
> there might be some options.
> 
> 1) Default to new implementation and leave the current one as an
>   alternative. Switch them using the environment CYGWIN.
> 2) Default to current implementation and add the new one as an
>   alternative. Switch them using the environment CYGWIN.
> 3) Adopt only new implementation and throw the current one away.
> 
> What do you think?

Do you really want to maintain twice as much code doing the same stuff
and constantly having to ask users which version of the code they are
running?  The maintenance cost outweighs the advantages, IMHO.
Personally I'd go for option 3.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer