Grant Edwards wrote, on February 22, 2017 7:52 AM > > On 2017-02-21, Chris Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Git Bash, or basically msys, is pretty reasonable. But if you are on
> > Windows 10, you might like the built-in Windows Subsystem for Linux > > (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) more - it's real Linux that runs > > alongside Windows, but less crazy than Cygwin. > > Cygwin is indeed crazy. > > I've been in awe of it for 15 years. > > Even sshd works (if you're carefuly and a little lucky). > > It's a medium-sized miracle that Cygwin works as well as it > does. For a few years, I distributed and supported a custom > snapshot of base Cygwin plus a software development kit for a > specific hardware product. It was not fun. Cygwin is a bit > brittle and presents many mysterious failure modes. But, had > I not seen it myself, I never would have believed Cygwin > would work in a useful way. > > In then end, we gave up on supporting Cygwin for our Windows > customers. It's actually easier to install Ubuntu in a VM > and have them use that. The last customer I had who was > trying to install Cyginw and use it for development spent > weeks and never got everything to work with Cygwin. About > two hours after I finally convinced him to try Linux on a VM, > I got an e-mail saying his Linux VM as installed, the > devleopment tools were installed on that, and he was happily > building his applications. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I > know how to do > at SPECIAL EFFECTS!! > gmail.com I tried Cygwin once. I had a fairly complex library of C functions I wanted to rewrite portions of in Python, and I wanted to run the C code first, and be able to use a running C version to check my Python version against. I couldn't afford Visual Studio, especially since there was only this one project to use it for, and Cygwin seemed like a reasonable alternative. Cygwin has an avid fan club of followers for using Cygwin to write and execute C code, and as an IDE, I think. But I couldn't get it to run right, and I usually get along pretty well with software. Not an experience I'm eager to repeat. Deborah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
