Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
From: "Paul G." <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:09:43 -0700

On 13 Oct 2003 at 12:00, Edward Peschko wrote:
[snip]
> 
> 
> In other words, depending how you look at it, mingw is defining less
> crucial information, or cygwin is defining more junk. And sometimes
> they define the same stuff differently.
> 
> In any case, the toolsets are incompatible. And this is just the tip
> of the iceberg; If mingw's compiler is doing *anything* different from
> cygwin, and the users of large mingw projects are testing versus
> mingw, then the using of cygwin will result in binaries with annoying,
> hard-to-find bugs.

	Umm...that's not exactly true...I think I can speak from experience on this, being someone who develops 
using Cygwin (with and w/o -mno-cygwin), Mingw and Msys on a very regular basis (maintaining all of those ports for 
two or three, functionally different, APIs).

	Paul G.

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