Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Good point Alexander. > > On a side note: Why is it that XDarwin has so many people contributing > code and features (they seem to have an OpenGL-passthrough system now, > which is pretty amazing), while Cygwin/XFree86 has so few > contributors? This seems contradictory because Windows is on 95% of > desktops while Mac OS X is only on < 1% (~20% of Apple's 5% market > share are running Mac OS X). > > That question will probably always baffle me.
Up until the past year or so, porting to Cygwin was a little more difficult than porting application to OSX. Don't forget, the Cygwin folks have had to write more of the layers of the *NIX environment whereas the OSX folks have a nice (and complete) *NIX environment handed to them on a plate. I have been using Cygwin for years now and I would say the momentum, user base, and usability is definitely increasing.
