On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 06:26:34PM -0700, Cary R. wrote: >FYI expect is what drew me to Tcl/Tk a very long time ago. > >Trust that I understand the need to be using a more modern version of >Tcl/Tk. I'm just whining that we're going to loose the GDI support. >Since I'm not going to do anything to help the situation thisis the >last I'll post on the subject. > >I did some quick testing and yes the new X server is much better. All >my prejudices came from Cygwin 1.5 days on a slower laptop. The >combination of a newer laptop and Cygwin 1.7/newer X server makes a >significant difference. > >The benefit I get from using VirtualBox for development? is that with >Cygwinour test suite takes 818 second andwith Linuxinside VirtualBox it >takes 45 seconds. As you can see itdoesn'ttake too many test cycles to >result in a significanttimesavings and yes this is the same version of >the codeon the same machine with all the other processes idle. For me >the resource cost of Virtual Box is 1G of memory and a 30-45 second >startup/shutdown times. Depending on what I'm doing and how long I'm >going to be doing it this is acceptable given the smaller testing >times. > >Don't construe any of this as a slam on Cygwin. I still think it is a >great setup!
I don't construe it as a slam. I construe it as continuing down the "off-topic for this mailing list" road. You've hijacked what should be a rebuild and packaging discussion with YA astonished observation that "Cygwin is slow". Moreover, as far as I can tell you are not even a package maintainer. If you have more to say then use the Cygwin mailing list. cgf
