At 07:33 PM 3/25/2004, Tom Roche wrote: > While sounding out Cygwin users in my organization, I got the > comment:
> > If Cygwin would run under Wine, I'd be a very happy person, we > > wouldn't need real Windows machines for builds, and we could > > consign all our Windows build machines, their ITSC compliance, and > > the continual stream of updates and security fixes to the deepest > > pits of hell. Larry Hall 03/25/2004 07:45:39 PM: > I'm not sure I see the logic in the comment from which the question > stems. If the goal is to avoid using Windows platforms for builds, > why isn't a cross-compiler targeting Windows enough? For one thing, in these modern times, building usually also involves some smoke-, unit- or function-test (i.e. "build verification test"). As far as the administrative desirability of running an emulator vs running native: this may be an organizational peculiarity, but IIRC the same requirements don't apply. -- 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/
