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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:55:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Actually, the main goal of Cygwin is to annoy users and to give a vent to
the innate meanness of its developers.

The secondary goal of Cygwin is to provide POSIX compatibility.  The Unix
tools are incidental. :-)
	Igor

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

> Cygwin aims to do both.
>
> It provides *nix tools running on Windows from a DLL implemented POSIX
> environment.  Or something like that.
>
> There are other places to get some of the GNU tools ported to Win32
> without the cygwin1.dll requirement.  However, you do not get the full
> benefits of a robust and maintained *nix-ish development environment.
>
> So either cygwin meets your needs or it doesn't.
>
> In your case, what cygwin provides might be overkill.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/overview.html
> [quote]Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of a
> DLL (cygwin1.dll), which acts as an emulation layer providing
> substantial POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) system call
> functionality, and a collection of tools, which provide a Linux look and
> feel. The Cygwin DLL works with all x86 versions of Windows since
> Windows 95.[/quote]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com
> > [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Totte Karlsson
> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:29 PM
> > To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> > Subject: Re: python and cygwin
> >
> >
> > OK, I see,
> > However, it seems as if I can execute the win32 python interpreter
> > from within the cygwin bash shell, and it seems to work as long the
> > cygwin path come into play, which is "unfortunate".
> >
> > I thought the idea with cygwin was to provide unix tools working under
> > windows, not to make windows into unix/posix? Now it looks as if I
> > need to have two sets of python running, one for cygwin and one for
> > windows, and both are running in windows! It is something fishy with
> > that I think..?

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