On 2009-05-06, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: >>> That way, you can basically use PuTTY to shell into your >>> Windows box. >> >> Better yet, set up sshd in your Cygwin install, and then use >> whatever terminal you normally use on your Linux/MacOS box to >> ssh into the Cygwin box. ??When run that way, windows is almost >> usable... > ><snip> > > True, but when I'm using Cygwin, that means I'm at work and don't have > a non-MS OS available.
Ouch. That's too bad. I spent a few months doing a project for which the compiler was windows-only. I found that doing all of the editing, source-control, and testing on Linux and sshing into a Cygwin box to do the "make" was minimally painful. > Of course I can open an ssh session to my home machine for > sanity (or kicking off a torrent download at home), but I > don't have a *nix-based OS at the day job. Lanching DSL > embedded to use the terminal seems a bit much. ^_^ Probably so. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want a VEGETARIAN at BURRITO to go ... with visi.com EXTRA MSG!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list