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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:44:50 +0200
From: Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it>
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Edward Peschko wrote:

>>msys != mingw.  mingw doesn't need msys.  Cygwin provides a more complete
>>building and testing environment than does msys.
>>    
>>
>... and I was told point blank by the mingw mailing list not to use them.
>  
>
>>cygwin is a nice user friendly package. I won't speak for mingw because
>>I have a personal bias.
>>    
>>
>.. so why not bring the nice user friendly experience of cygwin to mingw and let it
>piggy back off of cygwin's work?
>  
>
I guess you replied yourself, in the last paragraph...

I know nothing of MingW except what I read on this mailing list and 
their website, but judging fast (and, so, probably wrong), I'd say that 
the very fact that they want to avoid Cygwin like plague (and the choice 
of the word is intentional) *may* have something to with "not bringing 
cygwin user-friendliness to mingw", isn't it?

Lapo, trying not to feed (too much) wood to this MVCFW (Mingw Versus 
Cygwin Flame War ;-)

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