Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/09/08/15:39:42
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:47:57PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 9/8/2010 1:24 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 8 September 2010 17:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>> Isn't the whole reason for Cygwin actually to enable doing Unixy things
>>>> in Windows (that is, providing Windows/Unix interoperablity?
>>>
>>> No, that's not a key goal. From the Cygwin main web page:
>>>
>>> Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows
>>
>> Well, I (and my employer) would not be using Cygwin if it wasn't for
>> the Windows integration, in particular the ability to plug POSIX and
>> Windows programs together.
>>
>> If I just wanted to run Linux software on Windows, I'd use a virtual
>> machine or coLinux. While Cygwin's lower resource usage is nice to
>> have, that's easily outweighed by the inevitable compatibility and
>> performance drawbacks that come with building on top of Win32.
>
>There are allot of different reasons people choose to use Cygwin.
Correct. And, people apparently find Cygwin useful even when their
usage does not 100% align with the stated project goals. That does not
mean that we're going to change the goals and, given the project goals,
it certainly doesn't mean that it's a bug when a Windows-specific usage
like a MS-DOS path doesn't work in a Cygwin program.
cgf
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