Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Joe Buehler wrote:

> The windows-nt system-type is being used to mean all sorts of things,
> such as "be case-insensitive for file names" and some of them apply to
> Cygwin, but many do not, because the programming API is that of UNIX.

One idea would be to factor the various issues and provide predicates for 
each one of them, like what we did with display-*-p vs window-system.  
Then we could have something like system-case-insensitive-filenames-p and 
the likes, and we could eliminate many of the system-type tests.  The 
need for introducing yet another system-type value will then become a
moot point.

But that's a substantial job, so someone will need to step forward and 
volunteer.  (I can't do it due to total lack of free time, sorry.)