From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y5h5acsa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121210165727.GD16027@calimero.vinschen.de>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:57:27 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
>
> On Dec 10 18:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:10 +0100
> > > From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > > If some versions of Cygwin are case-insensitive in this context, while
> > > > others aren't, then a run-time test of the kind coded by Jerome is
> > > > _exactly_ the Right Thing.
> > >
> > > These old versions are not at all supported anymore. The right thing to
> > > do in this case is update.
> >
> > Why is requiring users to upgrade more reasonable than half a dozen
> > lines of simple code?
>
> Old, unsupported. What you do by adding these tests and special cases
> is to complicate the tests and add potential bugs for no good reason.
Again, we are talking about short and straightforward code. Nowhere
near any danger of complicating things and adding bugs. Since when do
we fear adding a bunch of string comparison lines?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-10 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 13:37 Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 14:08 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 15:34 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 16:29 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-07 9:22 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-07 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-07 10:06 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-07 10:06 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-12-07 10:11 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-07 10:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-11-30 19:02 ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-03 11:31 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-09 23:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-12-10 10:51 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 11:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 13:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-12-10 15:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 15:42 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 15:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 16:08 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 16:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 16:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-12-11 10:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 16:24 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-11 14:25 ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-11 14:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-11 15:07 ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-11 15:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-11 15:23 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-14 10:55 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-14 10:35 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 15:35 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 16:09 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 16:18 ` 'Jerome Guitton'
2012-12-10 16:27 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 16:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 18:22 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 18:35 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 18:36 ` 'Jerome Guitton'
2012-12-11 9:50 ` 'Jerome Guitton'
2012-12-11 16:27 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` <002401cdd6f0$c0b317b0$42194710$%muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
2012-12-10 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 16:40 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 16:51 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 17:16 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 14:43 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 15:03 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 15:38 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 15:41 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 15:46 ` Tom Tromey
2012-11-30 15:49 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 16:02 ` Jerome Guitton
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