Hello Cygwin community! I try to install Gentoo Prefix onto Cygwin. My goal is to get a second level administration tool, that I can run on Mac, Windows and Linux from the userspace.
This way I can customize the environment for any software project in a platform independent way. That is especially usefull for projects that depend on multiple tools. While a single tool is often platform independent (java), the whole stack often is not. At least you need to install different types of binaries. That results in an overhead of organization for typical projects. My approach is to automatically compile from the same sources instead. The Gentoo Prefix sources are platform independent. Meanwhile I spend a week of research. If you are interested in my results you will always find the current status here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin. As the cygwin project has already solved many issues that I will run into, I will come back with some questions and hope to find advice from Cygwin developers. Al -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
