Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/26/01:40:52
On 24 Aug 1999, Mumit Khan wrote:
> Sure Cygwin is buggy -- it's nowhere near as mature as DJGPP. However,
> lots of people are using it and many may not care about the 10% cases.
The point is that those 10% can e.g. prevent you from building a
package, and the problems are so subtle that the average John Doe the
Programmer can spend days on end without finding a solution.
> But that's just a side issue here. I know of Mingw users using UWIN as
> the platform, and there are others using Interix as the platform.
Been there, done that. This was what a typical PC user needed to do
circa 1986: to look on the net for various ports and clones of good
development tools.
The problem is they are all subtly incompatible, and a lot of effort went
into making all that hodgepodge of programs work together in concert.
A coherent package such as DJGPP or Cygwin solves these problems.
> If DJGPP folks want an alternative to RSXNTDJ and find Mingw acceptable,
> then someone will have to do the work of getting things to work together.
> I however don't have time for it, nor do I have the incentive. I can only
> offer some guidance, and a helping hand if time permits.
No argument here. My message wasn't meant to suggest that you alone
should do the work. It was meant to suggest a way to make Mingw a better
development environment by tracking the path charted by DJGPP, and
encourage interested people to start moving Mingw in that direction.
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