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From: "Paul G." <pgarceau AT comcast DOT net>
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:16:41 -0700
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Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
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yup.

	Msys is derived from Cygwin.  However, it does not have the overhead that Cygwin does, nor does Msys 
support the posix/unixy stuff that Cygwin does...nor should it.

	Paul G.

On 12 Oct 2003 at 0:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:16:33PM -0700, Paul G. wrote:
> >On 11 Oct 2003 at 19:01, Edward Peschko wrote:
> >>>What would be the point?
> >>
> >>lack of end-user confusion...  elimination of duplicate development
> >>effort...  elimination of duplicate maintenance effort...  the
> >>ability to compile all unix tools 'native' win32 for those who
> >>desire it.
> >
> >Umm...Cygwin is setup to compile all, or as many as it is possible to
> >support, unix/posix tools in a "native" win32 environment at a cost
> >(in terms of systems resources).  The cost is lower (in terms of
> >systems resources/overhead) for Msys than is the cost (in terms of
> >systems resources/overhead and in terms of Unix-like support and
> >Posix support) for Cygwin.  In fact it might help to read the
> >documentation (if it hasn't been read) at the Mingw
> >(http://www.mingw.org) site to get a better sense of the differences
> >between the two and why those differences exist.
> 
> I doubt that the overhead for Msys is any different than Cygwin's.
> Msys came from cygwin, remember?
> 
> cgf
> 
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