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            • March 19, 2006

              A Windows Life Without Cygwin?

            • I just have to give a quick shout out to the Cygwin folks... In all honesty, I can't imagine life without the absolutely fundimental *MUST HAVE* utility for anybody who lives in a cross-breed OS world.

            • Posted by m.david : March 19, 2006 11:01 AM GMT

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              • The trouble with cywin is that it is neither windows, nor unix. It causes inordinate amounts of bugreps from Ant, because people start ant from the .sh startup script (which has lots of fixes for cygwin in), but the java process itself is still native.

                Why not just (a) install the gnu tools for native Win32, and (b) host a real unix in a vmware image? The latter gives you X11, gedit, any other X11 app of your choice…

              • Posted by: Steve Loughran at March 19, 2006 08:21 PM

              • Hi Steve,

                Actually, you’ve got some very good points. Both SBN and Darcs, the two primary RCS systems I use, can’t handle living a double life… Creating a repo from one commandline binds and gags that repos to the commandline from that point forward. Definitely caused more than one frustration over the last year+ I’ve been using this solution.

                re: point a: I have some of them installed. Need to look further into this as I didn’t realize how many of these existed.

                re: point b: I actually do… Just don’t use it as often as I should. Thanks for the reminder!

              • Posted by: M. David Peterson at March 20, 2006 05:59 AM

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