On Monday 16 February 2004 04:19 pm, Keith Rollin wrote: > Seriously, I stayed away from the cygwin stuff for many years, > wondering why I should encumber my systems with that old cruft. Now > that I've installed them and had a chance to play with them, I can't > imagine having a development system without them. Now I don't have > to switch over to MPW on my Mac any more... :-)
I was using a client's Windows system for development for a week, using cygwin prc-tools etc. It's still quite slow when compared to using prc-tools from a unix-like box. It left me very frustrated in that I couldn't finish the job during that week. Both machines are about the same; mine is an Athlon 1700 running Linux, and the Windows box was a Celeron 1.8Ghz. Prc-tools with Linux is 9 seconds to build my project, whereas prc-tools (cygwin) on Windows XP was 180 seconds. Isn't that peculiar. I'd laugh, but it can truly impact the amount of work you can get done in a day. I love cygwin, and the awesome package manager/installer. Though I hope someday the cygwin stuff can be made faster. -- /* Chris Faherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
