Achim Gratz via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>: > Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > > It could be re-ported, with sufficient determination. If I were going > > to do it in C I'd use one of the Unix-based cross-compilation > > toolchains rather than native Windows tools or Cygwin - you get much > > better conformance to modern C and POSIX that way, which is important > > because the port shims you need to use if you don't have close > > conformance are major, *major* defect attractors. > > I call bullshit on that one. When was the last time you actually used > Cygwin?
I've never used Cygwin directly. I'm going by the frequency of Cygwin-specific shims I've seen, and had to maintain, in GPSD. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel