Hello,
On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at 07:01 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
Given that there have been great strides in supporting GNUstep under
MinGW, I believe it to be redundant to continue to support CYGWIN since
it's not currently being maintained and since MinGW does everything
needed to get GNUstep working properly under Windows.
For this reason, I believe that support for GNUstep under CYGWIN should
be deprecated and eventually removed.
Are there any comments or objections regarding this?
Although I know the advantages of MinGW and the fact that we have
manpowertrouble I think it is not very smart. Cygwin is often more
widespread and also offers better compatibility. I can't compile FTP.app
on MinGW, while it would most probably work on Cygwin since it has
"real" sockets, the same goes for another couple of application I tried
under windows which depend on a more unixy environment.
I know that most of these applications could be fixed with a certain
effort, perhaps small, but this options commetns by itself and it is the
reason why cygwin is often preferred to mingw.
-R
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