From: Earnie <ea...@us...> - 2011-03-30 15:05:28
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Charles Wilson wrote: > > Honestly, I just don't have time to tilt at this windmill anymore. By > MSys insisting on violating the de facto standard behavior ("well, it's > allowed by the de jure POSIX standard, so there! Pppbbbbhh!") it's just > making life harder for me. > > I'd much rather simply "fix" the msys-1.0.dll to abide by the de facto > ("don't mess with errno on success") standard, and punt -- basically, > release perl-5.8.8 with the requirement that users upgrade msys to > 1.0.17, and not patch perl with respect to this issue at all. > Definitely understandable and I agree. -- Earnie -- http://www.for-my-kids.com |