Hello Eric, * On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:42AM -0700 Eric Blake wrote: > In general, cygwin does not care if the .exe is missing, but other > programs (particularly cmd) do, so it is better if PE-COFF files are > given the .exe extension.
Is it really better to add the .exe extension? May I ask which problem it is this renaming tries to solve? I ask because here have been some discussions about the problems imposed by renaming to .exe. However, I could not come up with a problem that can be solved with this renaming: If I really, really need the .exe extension, I can generate it myself. So, why should Cygwin do it automatically? Thank you (or anyone else) for any explanations, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
