Andy Koppe wrote: >> Cygwin isn't strictly obliged to provide an interface to Windows. > > No, but then it wouldn't really be Cyg*win* anymore. It would > effectively be Interix with a particularly slow fork(). That's > unless it moved into its own subsystem, which of course would mean a > major redesign. Also, it would be good-bye to cygutils, mintty, > rxvt-native, Xwin and anything else that mixes POSIX with the Windows > API. >
Which isn't going to sell. No one will want the changes. Remember, Cygwin exists solely as a money making project for Red Hat. So the changes Cygwin makes ultimately will need to be approved by the Red Hat customer base. MSYS on the other hand has no paying customers and the changes there only need to be approved by the FOSS users who code and maintain it. Earnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
