Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:25 AM > >>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/ful >>l_papers/noer/noer_html/noer.html> > >On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14:44AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >[E] wrote: > >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.
Chris, I know better than to argue with you in general and on this subject in particular. (For those who don't know, Chris used to work for Cygnus Solutions.) I just thought that it might be useful to point those who are interested to the official historical documentation. If there is something wrong in that documentation, I suggest that you take it up with the web master, not me. :-) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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
