From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: philosophy question 5 Nov 1997 21:25:49 -0800 Message-ID: <199711052340.PAA24512.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> References: <199711050327 DOT WAA13601 AT entropy DOT math DOT fsu DOT edu> Content-Type: text To: sfb AT entropy DOT math DOT fsu DOT edu (Steven Bellenot) Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Steven Bellenot wrote: > > I see three directions gnuwin32 could/should go: > 1. Providing Unix based tools that are usable in win32. How a person > can live without a reasonable shell, diff, grep and friends ... > 2. Provide a development environment for the translation of the > vast freeware of unix to win32. > 3. Make an environment as nearly unix-like as possible. > > I see some conflict in these goals. For example #1 would make files > as nearly dos.like as possible while #3 would make the files as > nearly unix-like as possible. All three are goals. The goal of having an environment that's as unix-like as possible is the one where compromises will happen when absolutely necessary. Note that providing a Unix environment for Win32 is not really something core to Cygnus' plans. Cygnus' concern is providing quality Win32-hosted cross-compilers that (eventually) will include an IDE exhibiting native Win32 look and feel. But I expect that the quality of the Unix-like environment will continue to increase over time as people here at Cygnus and people out on the net contribute to the project. -- Geoffrey Noer noer AT cygnus DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".