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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:59:09 -0700
From: "Michael F. March" <march AT indirect DOT com>
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To: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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Subject: Re: cygwin, emacs, mozilla
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>
>> I am amazed that, considering the warm fuzzy loving relationship
>> between Microsoft and Netscape/Mozilla, they continue to use VC. I 
>> would expect them to lean over backwards to move over to gcc.
>>
> They are indeed, but converting the big build process from VC to gcc 
> is not so easy an operation ^_^
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134113
>
> BTW: of course they would like some help ;-)
>
Maybe the first step would be to get Mozilla to compile under Cygwin 
using X instead of
using all the Windows APIs directly (like what they are trying to do in 
that Bugzilla ticket
above.)  In fact, getting Evolution and Mozilla working under 
XFree86/Cygwin would be
two worth while efforts.


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