On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:16:33PM -0700, Paul G. wrote: >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.
I doubt that the overhead for Msys is any different than Cygwin's. Msys came from cygwin, remember? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
