On 2016-07-10 15:23, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > > >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 5:06 PM, davidf4 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The joys of using a product that may or may not be updated.. > > Do very many still use Cygwin? > > I would have thought the availability of free virtualization would have > killed it off by now, especially for applications like xastir. > > But the Microsoft appears to be reinventing the Cygwin wheel, so maybe I'm > just out of the loop. > > -Jason
I use both virtual machines and Cygwin. Cygwin is useful for some basic functionality without having to spin up an entire virtual machine. I use it a lot for scripting, making small C programs, using certain tools like Image Magick, and for getting some daemons (like sshd) running on Windows machines. I use virtual machines for very heavy operations like cross compiling, testing large daemons (e.g. Apache), and other situations for which Cygwin won't work. Having Xastir pop up in a near-native window on Windows instead of having to have a whole virtual machine is quite handy. _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
