Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
From: "Paul G." <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:16:33 -0700

On 11 Oct 2003 at 19:01, Edward Peschko wrote:

> > What would be the point?
> 
> lack of end-user confusion... elimination of duplicate development
> effort... elimination of duplicate maintenance effort... the ability
> to compile all unix tools 'native' win32 for those who desire it.

	Umm...Cygwin is setup to compile all, or as many as it is possible to support,  unix/posix tools in a "native" win32 
environment at a cost (in terms of systems resources).  The cost is lower (in terms of systems resources/overhead) 
for Msys than is the cost (in terms of systems resources/overhead and in terms of Unix-like support and Posix 
support) for Cygwin.  In fact it might help to read the documentation (if it hasn't been read) at the Mingw 
(http://www.mingw.org) site to get a better sense of the differences between the two and why those differences exist.

	Paul G.

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