On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14:44AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM >>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the >>>early development, in the first place? To have a windows-hosted build >>>environment for xxx-target compilers: in this case, xxx = native-win32) >> >>Cygnus funded the work to provide windows *hosted* cross compilers for >>other architectures. Targetting *native* targeted win32 did not come >>until a couple into the life of the project. > >references: > <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/brief-history.html> > See '4. "Harnessing the Power of the Internet"' on ><http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/full_papers/noer/noer_html/noer.html>
Don't know if you're arguing with me or agreeing with me but I actually helped in the creation of that paper. I even presented parts of it in Paris to a bunch of non-English-speaking people at one point. Unfortunately, the referenced page mixes the term "native" to mean "runs on windows" vs. "runs without cygwin". The initial goal of the Cygwin project was *always* to produce binaries which run in the Cygwin environment. The ability to produce objects which didn't rely on Cygwin came after the project had been around for a couple of years. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
