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Date: 	Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:01:57 -0500
From: "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dimi AT cs DOT toronto DOT edu>
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To: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladivan AT pacbell DOT net>
cc: cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Wine on Cygwin
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:

> Why would one want to run Wine on Cygwin which is itself running on what
> Wine is trying to emulate?

For many reasons:
  -- ease of development
  -- get more developers (some have only Windows at work)
  -- test Cygwin to its limits
  -- ditto for Wine
  -- it has a large neat factor :)

--
Dimi.


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