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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:05:55PM +0100, Vincent R. wrote:
>Actually I am using cygwin because there are many packages, adn a good
>installer but I will 
>switch completely to mingw if I could get the same.
>Couldn't be possible to share more things between the two projects ?
>I mean for instance share the cywgin installer that could allow people to
>install cygwin and mingw
>on two different places to avoid lib/path issues.
>For instance :
>
>C:\gnu\cygwin
>C:\gnu\mingw
>C:\gnu\home
>
>They could share for instance the same home directory ...
>Last time I tried to compile something with cygwin targeting mingw it just
>failed...

The Cygwin installer is open source.  There is nothing stopping people from
using it.

There is no benefit to the Cygwin project in trying to adapt to some
other project's need but, in your above example, you could arrange your
own system to use those paths easily.

cgf

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