On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:18:36AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:39:58 -0800, "Aaron J. Grier" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:30:34AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > > I hate glibc. One day we're going to discover that glibc has become to
> > > Linux what cygwin is to Windows.
> > what is cygwin to windows? (let the cygwin hate begin!)
> One way to make a windows PC at least 'a bit' useable.
> I have not found a better way so far.
Hear hear! Preach it Brother Brand!
I imagine that all the problems noted only really matter if you're
trying to use it as a development environment, which would, to be blunt,
be a really fucking stupid thing to do. If you want to write code for
Unix, then write code *for Unix*. If you want to write code for Windows,
then use the Windows tools. Approximately no-one should write code for
cygwin, for its goal is to provide a set of user tools, not to be a
development platform. It succeeds in meeting that goal.
It is of course hateful in certain matters, like how it treats the roots
of filesystems.
--
David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world
" In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be
indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. "
--Blair P. Houghton
