Hi David: Um. You should address your remarks to the OP, and not me.
That said, I also think you should seriously consider reducing the amplitude of your remarks if you want to be an effective advocate for free software. I run Debian Jessie myself and I have been exclusively using Linux since 1996 (aside from some dabbling with Wine). But I would frankly be annoyed by your "move to Linux if you want to get anything done" tone if I were a Microsoft Windows user. Wouldn't you be annoyed if someone said "Move to Microsoft Windows if you wanted to get anything done"? Everybody has the freedom to use any platform they like. If it is right for their needs, then it is right. Where I am coming from is I believe Microsoft Windows is a fine ecosystem to populate with free (as in freedom) software. So I think it is great that Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 are helping so much with that effort. Furthermore, I am interested in both platforms because some of my fellow PLplot developers with access to computers with the Microsoft Windows OS, have been able to build and thoroughly test a powerful version of PLplot both on the Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platforms, and it might turn out at some stage that they will help in the packaging effort for PLplot on both those platforms. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
