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Subject: RE: help: Glib under Cygwin
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:39:30 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:08 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: help: Glib under Cygwin
> 
> 
> >
> >I have enough problems without needing to swim against that 
> sort of current.
> 
> Um, yeah, Ulrich is not a Windows lover, to put it mildly.  
> He's hardly alone
> at Red Hat, though.
> 
> I wasn't around during Cygwin's inception but I believe that Cygwin
> actually exists because Ulrich was adamant about not porting glibc to
> Windows.

That would only impact newlib surely? I mean, AFAIK, if glibc was ported
wouldn't large chunks of cygwin still be essential? (Console handlers,
pipes, sockets, file io, threads, win32 security mapping just for
starters...)
 
> However, aren't we talking about 'glib' not 'glibc'?

I think David was mislead by one of the early posters jump from glib to
glibc. And David then went to do the "right thing" by cygwin, and got
jumped on. This sort of negative feedback isn't very beneficial....

Rob
 
> cgf
> 
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