On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:37, Derek Price wrote: > Jim.Hyslop wrote: > | Jim Meyering wrote: > |> Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development > |> environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it > |> looks like MKS has support for it, too. > |> > |> > |> If you opt to continue using Visual Studio 6 in spite of this, it > |> must have some important redeeming features. > | > | The problem with the cygwin build is that it requires Cygwin.dll as > | well. The MSVC build stands alone, not requiring any external DLLs. > | > | > | I don't think it is reasonable to require all Windows users to > | download and install Cygwin just to run CVS. > > I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop. Whatever Microsoft's > flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at least > relatively innocent and should still be catered to.
I agree with this. Even though I'm not an ms disciple, I know quite some users that would be affected ... -- - The LinCVS Team - http://www.lincvs.com _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list Bug-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
