On 9/13/10, Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka xxx.duh> wrote: > Al <oss.el...@xxx.xxx> was heard to say: > >> I am not asking this to debug my own setup. I am rather ask for an >> overall estimation of Cygwins current and future usability and >> stability. >> > > These two things are related. Remember that Cygwin is an open source > project, and that it does not employ dozens of developers with the > abstract task of increasing usability or stability. Both are increased > by either debugging or at least properly reporting bugs. If you > experience stability problems on your setup, then reporting this in > all necessary detail is a sure step to increase future usability and > stability. > >> It not, how to tweak Cygwin to run on some machines. It's, how big is >> the percentage of windows machines, that will run a stable Cygwin with >> the standard setup.exe setup. > > Who would keep counters of stable or instable setups? These number are > exceptionally hard to come by. Even if this list is now flooded with > "my setup works" and "mine too" posts, these numbers would not be > representative. Users may have given up on Cygwin due to instabilities > without notifying the list. Others may run Cygwin so happily they > never think about joining the list. All you could do is to scan the > Cygwin archives for "instabilities" (this is your term and arguably > far too unspecific) and compare it to the number of instabilities > reported for any run-of-the mill Linux in the same timeframe.
I would mention in response to earlier question that I'm quite happy with cygwin on 'doze 7. I routinely build and test mobile phone apps here as well as miscellaneous script based downloads and everything seems fine. The performance issues I reported are fine compared to any 'doze alternatives and so far most of what I have developed under cygwin runs under real linux. And it is a good way to learn linux too LOL. btw, is is possible to do something like the new iproute2 stuff in dohs? > > Just my 2cc > > Markus > > P.S. mine works > -- 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