Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/27/19:06:31
On 26 May 2001, at 19:25, Vesa Pekka Paatero wrote:
> If people could more readily use stable versions in their
> developments,
> perhaps Cygwin's reputation would improve (as it pertains to
> reliability).
My own little private grizzle. I would like to see every one who
complains about Cygwins "lack of stability" have to work with
Sun/Netscape iPlanet Application Server 6.o.
It has been said that everything is a matter of perspective, and from
where I stand, Cygwin has the following features by comparison:
- Stability: Works day after day, without mysterious failure.
Upgrades do not cause 2 out of 3 of your existing applications
to cease working (I'm not kidding about this).
- Documentation: A high volume mailing list, the GNU info files,
and man pages from here to eternity. It beats a one paragraph
entry that tells you that directory failover is possible, and
then doesn't tell you how to cope if directory fail over
actually occurs.
- Support: If a problem is serious, it can, and will, usally be
fixed in less than 2 months.
- Value for money: You get all of this _without_ having to spend
around AU$1,000,000.00
My only is Ctl-C handling in bash, but since I have a usable work
around, I am yet another who hasn't bothered to fire up gdb and try
to debug it. Mea culpa.
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