On 11 Oct 2003 at 19:01, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > What would be the point?
>
> lack of end-user confusion... elimination of duplicate development
> effort... elimination of duplicate maintenance effort... the ability
> to compile all unix tools 'native' win32 for those who desire it.
Umm...Cygwin is setup to compile all, or as many as it is possible to support,
unix/posix tools in a "native" win32
environment at a cost (in terms of systems resources). The cost is lower (in terms of
systems resources/overhead)
for Msys than is the cost (in terms of systems resources/overhead and in terms of
Unix-like support and Posix
support) for Cygwin. In fact it might help to read the documentation (if it hasn't
been read) at the Mingw
(http://www.mingw.org) site to get a better sense of the differences between the two
and why those differences exist.
Paul G.
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