> On May 3, 2016, at 9:35 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On May 3, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Michael Buckley via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I may be fundamentally misunderstanding the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but >> I believe it just provides binary compatibility for Linux x86_64 >> command-line tools, but doesn't quite implement enough of the Linux syscalls >> to run a Linux window manager in order to run GUI programs. So it's >> certainly something you could compile your server code for if you wanted to >> host on a Windows server, but it's not something you could use to distribute >> client software. > > I want to stop this thread of the conversation here. This is not a general > technology discussion forum; it's not our place to second-guess whether > Cygwin is useful. The Swift project's primary criterion for accepting a port > is whether there are contributors willing to maintain it.
+1. -Chris _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
