On Jun 11 16:59, LRN wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11.06.2013 16:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jun 11 12:58, Ray Donnelly wrote: > >> I for one am hugely appreciative of all the hard work that Corinna, Kai, > >> redhat, the mingw-w64 team and also Alexey has put into both Cygwin and > >> MSYS2. > >> > >> Cygwin and MSYS2 exist for different, mutually exclusive goals. Anything we > > > > I fail to see that. MSYS2 is basically to run a Mingw compiler and to > > have a POSIX-like shell. How is that something Cygwin doesn't provide > > anyway?!? > Cygwin doesn't seem to have the mangling (that is, converting paths like > /usr/local/include/glib to C:/foobar/baz/usr/local/include/glib).
Cygwin has the cygwin_path_conv call which allows to convert paths from POSIX to Windows and vice versa, including long paths > 260 chars. You can also use Windows path as input. `find C:/' works. > I'm sure that Alexey will be able to give you a complete list of things > that Cygwin can't do, but MSYS2 can (or should be able to) do. Just as a sidenote, a ChangeLog.MSYS or something like that in the sources would be helpful. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer Red Hat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
