-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent wrote: > Roelf Renkema wrote: > >> Where's cygwin's php and/or mysql. They probably got a lot going against >> them but they are peoples choise. At least some communication would be >> nice. And now riscing the lart, why doesn't cygwin cross the border and >> take advantage of ported software. Lets face it, cygwin will never bring >> posix to windows, but if it just posixs windows with a few cheats that >> nobody cares about hey....... > > You ask as if somebody decided NOT to do this.
No I didn't. > That's exactly the > opposite of it, the only reason any packages don't exist is because > nobody volunteered to do it. OK thats clear, I'm just wondering as obviously a lot of people use them why nobody tried to port them yet. I know I don't because I lack the knowledge. > Once somebody does, they will be there. Wow[tm]. > > And in fact if you use Cygwin Ports you can already install mysql just > like any other package in setup.exe. I don't think Cygwin Ports has PHP > though. The build infrastructure for PHP doesn't support Cygwin and > it's a real nightmare to try to work with. Mhhh, yeah I can imagine having compiled it a few time on several linuxes. Would be same same problem if anyone would try to port cygwin to another platform I guess :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGCxNZ8LhtcVSmguYRAoZzAKCp1Td4qJTnJZDkwwFM5ZBBg23sawCbBL5W VKb9Z9b/3Bctmwu+23dr/1w= =JgFL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
