From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: cygwin.dll 16 Jan 1997 23:26:37 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32DEE01E.5BC5.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <1 DOT 5 DOT 4 DOT 16 DOT 19970116150108 DOT 18cf641e AT scooter DOT gcal DOT ac DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: "M.Carter" Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com M.Carter wrote: > > Any university offers courses that will cover the tradeoffs between > > dynamic and static libraries; it seems some readers of this group > > could benefit from such an education. > > Oops - I'm duly chastened. But I'd like to point out that commercial > software for Win95 runs fairly smoothly, whereas stuff I get off the > Internet usually requires the Devil's own cunning to get working. I don't understand the connection or the point. Commercial Win95 software often comes with great gobs of DLLs and other stuff placed whoknowswhere, is not redistributable, and is produced by bunches of programmers, managers, QA people, tech writers, et al. who are paid by the often rather sizable fee they charge you for that software, and you are lucky to ever actually talk to any of those people, and you certainly won't be able patch the source code yourself. OTOH, cygwin is FREE and UNSUPPORTED; the small number of people who maintain it no doubt have more important things to do, but they have put in a lot of time to put this thing together nonetheless. If you want a commercial unix shell, MKS and similar firms offer such a thing. If you want a commercial environment for porting unix programs, similar to cygwin, there's datafocus' "NuTCracker", which currently only runs on WinNT and requires *3* DLLs, and carries a price tag that they don't mention on their web page, perhaps because they don't want to scare people away. The choice is yours. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".