On Jan 2, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > >> In my experience, Cygwin is often used as an >> easy way out for porting open source software to Windows, and SFU/SUA >> seem to exclude at least most of the home users and quite a few >> laptop >> users. > > First, note that Cygwin is GPL unless you buy a commercial license > (for a > fee undisclosed by Red Hat). > > The Cygwin fork call is not copy-on-write optimized, which makes > Cygwin > unsuited for fork-based internet servers. Also, programs that require > inter-process read-only access to huge memory buffers can avoid using > shared memory by forking. This trick will not work on Cygwin. > > And then there is the security issue. How safe is Cygwin against > various > exploits? As far as I can tell, there is no auto-update of system > components. > >> Can one compile gcc for SFU/SUA? Does that have less or more problems >> than gcc for Cygwin? > > gcc is the system C compiler on Interix. Microsoft is for some > reason not > using their own C compiler, but rather relying on gcc. Perhaps > Visual C++ > did not pass UNIX certification; or perhaps this is a decision to make > porting from Linux easier. I don't know. But in any case, gcc is > preinstalled, you can build your own, or download one here: > > http://www.suacommunity.com/tool_warehouse.htm > > Personally I prefer Sun's VirtualBox (PUEL license, not the GPL > version) > with a modern Linux or Unix to Cygwin or Interix. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/
And I prefer running a modern Linux or Unix natively on my system :). Virtualbox is a nice option for Windows users when it works though. Of course, from the developers point of view, no matter how nice we set up our own environment of choice, the issue remains that we don't want to require users to have to upgrade Windows Ultimate to compile/ run our code. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
