On Apr 22 17:23, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Craig A. Vanderborgh > >Sent: 22 April 2005 17:19 > > > We are going to be starting with the mingw version of Cygwin - MSYS - > > primarily to try to keep the size of the DLL down. Another reason for > > starting from this distribution is that MSYS has a version of bash and > > the utilities that all come together in a fairly tidy bundle. > > This would be a terrible mistake, since MSYS has nothing to do with cygwin > whatsoever but is an entirely separate and unrelated port of gnu tools to > windoze.
Actually, MSYS is a branch from some old version of Cygwin, 1.3.xx, dunno exactly, with a few patches applied to work without registry and stuff like that. I guess it would be better for a Cygwince project to stick with MSYS for a couple of reasons. For instance, it never changed to 64 bit file access, it doesn't have lots of NT specific code, it has not such a complex implementation of security considerations. All in all, MSYS is probably the better base for developing a lean CE Cygwin. I'd suggest to contact the MSYS development team on sourceforge. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
