Re: cd

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 27-Aug-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>> | Though I'm sure that Windoze users are an important group (perhaps
>> | even most important),
>>
>> Definitely not.  Running on Windows is not the ultimate goal.  After all,
>> it is GNU Octave, not "Octave for Windows users".
>
> While running on Windows is not an ultimate goal, having a cross-platform
> tool should be such goal. Ignoring Windows users means deliberately
> cutting your potential users base. And I don't think that theses days
> GNU is synonym for "not for Windows".
>

GNU's Not Unix, but it's not Windows either. I think John has a point
noting Octave's GNU allegiance. GNU software should probably be
primarily compatible with other GNU software. And GNU bash has always
been clear about what "cd" does.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz