Phobos should not in any way require or rely on Cygwin, for a long list
of reasons.
Sean Kelly wrote:
Agreed. I actually tried porting a large Unix app (Solaris/Linux) to Microsoft SUA once.
Simply getting it to build was a huge hassle and making it run correctly would have
taken a bunch of recoding. Between that and the abysmal command interface I really don't
understand why MS bothers to maintain the thing at all. Hm... what about Cygwin? I
suppose that might be another Windows/Posix platform? Or is the OS "Cygwin" in
that case?
On May 22, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Sean Kelly wrote:
Windows is ostensibly posix-compliant, Ive just not bothered to add the defs.
The Windows posix subsystem ducks enough that there's really little point.
The Windows posix subsystem is a kludge and an extra dll, and is often treated
as a poor step-daughter by Microsoft. I strongly suggest we stay away from it.
Phobos should use the native Windows APIs. I also do not want to encourage its
use by providing a set of posix declarations for Windows as part of Phobos.
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